Copyright (c) Markus Kohm
Release: 2023-11-20 v1.2
License: LPPL 1.3c
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Creation of title pages is something most authors should not have to do. But reality is not perfect, so a lot of authors have to do it. In 2009 KOMA started the title page project at https://komascript.de/titlepage to collect real title pages and implement them with a well defined interface. In 2021 the project has been moved to https://github.com/komascript/uni-titlepage and renamed.
Now, changing from one title page style to another would be very simple. Nevertheless implementation of a new title page style may be still difficult. But maybe the guys of the title page project would help you. Just ask!
To unpack and install all files, you can download the source from github and then run:
l3build install
Afterwards you can build the manual and the PDFs of the examples using:
l3build doc
As an alternative you can use the CTAN source distribution. This already contains the user manual and the PDFs of the example files. So you only have to run
tex uni-titlepage.dtx
to generate the package file uni-titlepage.sty, the title definition files
title-*.def and the example titlepages titlepage-*.tex.
Please note, the title-*.def files are run-time files. Together with
uni-titlepage.sty they have to be placed in tex/latex/uni-titlepage inside
a TDS tree. All files titlepage-*.tex and titlepage-*.pdf as well as
uni-titlepage.pdf are part of the documentation and should be placed in
doc/latex/uni-titlepage/ of the TDS tree.
Users can use the installation described at Unpacking and Installation for Developers and Distributors. However, if your TeX distributor already distributes a ready for installation package, you do not need and should not create files and copy them yourself. Just use the package manager of your TeX distribution to install the package.
If you have made a title definition that is not specific for a single project but could be of interest for other users, you can either
- make your own
uni-titlepage-FOOpackage with its own manual and upload it to ctan, - contribute in adding it to
uni-titlepage.
The first option has the advantage, that you are free. There won't be any code
reviews by the uni-titlepage developers. You don't need to use the same
coding style. There is not need to accept the license of uni-titlepage
etc. But in this case you have to take care to keep it compatible with future
releases of uni-titlepage and it will not be presented in the
uni-titlepage manual.
The second option has the advantage, that after accepting your code, the
uni-titlepage developers will try to keep it working even if they change
uni-titlepage. But there are several restrictions to your code, before it
will be accepted. For example, you should always try to use general options,
if possible. Static text (not handled by options) should be configurable via
\newcaptionname, \providecaptionname and \renewcaptionname and should be
available at least in English and German (but if we can, we help in
translating them). The coding style and quality is also a criterion.