Guide to LaTeX (4th Edition) (Tools and Techniques

54 Chapter 3. Document Layout and Organization
The command
\thanks{Footnote text}
may be given at any point in the title, author, or date text. This puts a
marker at that point where the command appears and writes footnote text
as a footnote on the title page.
The title page is created using the entries in \title, \author, \date,
and \thanks when the command
\maketitle
is issued. The title page itself does not possess a page number and
the first page of the following document is number 1. (For book, the
page numbering is controlled by the special commands in Section 3.3.5.)
A separate title page is only produced for document classes book and
report. For article, the command \maketitle creates a title heading
on the first page using the centered entries from the \title, \author,
and, if present, \date and \thanks declarations. If the document class
option titlepage has been given, the title appears on a separate page
even for the article class.
An example of a title page in the standard L AT E X format is shown in
Figure 3.2 on the previous page. Note that the current date appears
automatically since the command \date is missing in the definition of
the title page. This command may be used to put any desired text in place
of the date.
For the unformatted title page produced with the titlepage environment,
the commands \title and \author are left out and the entire
title page is designed according to the author’s specifications within the
environment. To this end he or she may make use of all the structuring
commands described in Chapter 4. In this case the printing of the title
page is implemented at the end of the titlepage environment, so the
command \maketitle is also left out.
Exercise 3.8: Remove the declarations for changing the page format in Exercises
3.5–3.7. Add to your exercise text a title heading with the title ‘Exercises’,
your name as author, and your address, together with a date entry in the form
‘place, date’. To do this, write the following commands after \begin{document}:
\title{Exercises} \author{Your name\\Your address}
\date{Your town, \today} \maketitle
Make sure that you have selected document class article. After printing the
document, change the document class command to
\documentclass[titlepage]{article}
to put the title information on to a title page instead of a title heading. Deactivate
these commands by putting the comment character % at the beginning of each of
the lines. In this way you avoid getting a title page in the following exercises but
you can easily reactivate the commands simply by removing the % characters.