The memoir class - The UK TeX Archive

4.1. Styling the titling4.1 STYLING THE TITLINGThe facilities provided for typesetting titles are limited, essentially catering for the kindof titles of articles published in technical journals. They can also be used as a quick anddirty method for typesetting titles on reports, but for serious work, such as a title page fora book or thesis, each title page should be handcrafted. For instance, a student of mine,Donald Sanderson used LaTeX to typeset his doctoral thesis, and Figure 4.2 shows the titlepage style mandated by Rensselear Polytechnic Institute as of 1994. Many other examplesof title pages, together with the code to create them, are in [Wil07a].Another handcrafted title page from [Wil07a] is shown in Figure 4.3. This one is basedon an old booklet I found that was published towards the end of the 19th century andexhibits the love of Victorian printers in displaying a variety of types; the rules are anintegral part of the title page. For the purposes of this manual I have used New CenturySchoolbook, which is part of the regular LaTeX distribution, rather than my originalchoice of Century Old Style which is one of the commercial FontSite fonts licensed fromthe SoftMaker/ATF library, supported for LaTeX through Christopher League’s estimablework [Lea03].The title page in Figure 4.4 follows the style of of The Design of Books [Wil93] and a pagesimilar to Nicholas Basbanes A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the EternalPassion for Books is illustrated in Figure 4.5. These are all from [Wil07a] and handcrafted.In contrast the following code produces the standard \maketitle layout.Source for example 4.1\title{MEANDERINGS}\author{T. H. E. River \andA. Wanderer\thanks{Supported by a grant from theR. Ambler’s Fund}\\Dun Roamin Institute, NY}\date{1 April 1993\thanks{First drafted on 29 February 1992}}...\maketitleThis part of the class is a reimplementation of the titling package [Wil01g].The class provides a configurable \maketitle command. The \maketitle commandas defined by the class is essentially\newcommand{\maketitle}{%\vspace*{\droptitle}\maketitlehooka{\pretitle \title \posttitle}\maketitlehookb{\preauthor \author \postauthor}\maketitlehookc{\predate \date \postdate}\maketitlehookd\thispagestyle{title}61