How To Draw Lines Up And Down The Title In Latex

Part 1 | Part 2 | Office three | Part iv | Part 5

Author: Josh Cassidy (August 2013)

This v-office series of articles uses a combination of video and textual descriptions to teach the nuts of writing a thesis using LaTeX. These tutorials were get-go published on the original ShareLateX blog site during August 2013; consequently, today'southward editor interface (Overleaf) has inverse considerably due to the development of ShareLaTeX and the subsequent merger of ShareLaTeX and Overleaf. Withal, much of the content is notwithstanding relevant and teaches you some bones LaTeX—skills and expertise that will utilize across all platforms.

In the previous post we looked at calculation a bibliography to our thesis using the biblatex bundle. In this, the final mail of the series, we're going to look at customising some of the opening pages. In the first video we made a rather makeshift title page using the \maketitle command and past using an \includegraphics command in the \title control. Although this works, information technology doesn't give u.s.a. as much flexibility every bit we may want.

The Championship Page

A much better way to do this is to apply the titlepage environment. Nosotros'll practice this in a split up .tex file and then input information technology. The start affair we'll do is enclose everything in the title page within the center environment and so information technology'due south all aligned to the eye. Next we need to instruct $L a T east X$ to go out a gap between the top of the page and the get-go line of text. To do this we use the \vspace command followed by a length. We likewise demand to add together an asterisk into the command to brand sure $L a T e X$ doesn't decide to ignore the control. Next nosotros'll add the thesis title in assuming font using the \textbf control. To exit a gap between this and the next line of text we apply the \vspace command again, this time without the asterisk. Adjacent we'll add in a subtitle followed by some more vertical space and then the author proper noun in bold font. This concludes what nosotros want at the top of the title page—the rest of the content nosotros'll add together at the bottom of the title page.

To separate these two sections out we'll use the \vfill command which will automatically add in the amount of vertical space needed for the content to fill the folio. Next we'll add together in a line of text to specify what caste the thesis is existence submitted for. The double backslash is used to create a new line. We'll then add more space before adding in the university logo specifying it'south width as a fraction of the text width. Finally we'll add in some information nearly the academy and the appointment.

                        \begin            {titlepage}            \begin            {eye}            \vspace*            {1cm}            \textbf            {Thesis Title}            \vspace            {0.5cm}            Thesis Subtitle            \vspace            {i.5cm}            \textbf            {Author Name}            \vfill            A thesis presented for the degree of\\            Doctor of Philosophy            \vspace            {0.8cm}            \includegraphics            [width=0.iv\textwidth]            {university}            Department Name\\            Academy Name\\            Land\\            Date            \end            {center}            \stop            {titlepage}

Now in the primary .tex file we can replace the \maketitle command with an input command linked to our new championship page. If we now compile the lawmaking we tin see all the items take been correctly candy:

Thesis smalltitle.png

All the same, the text is quite pocket-sized so nosotros'll go dorsum and change the font sizes. To do this we'll utilize one of the simple font-sizing commands. There are ten of these to choose from, ranging from smallest to largest they are:

                        \tiny            \scriptsize            \footnotesize            \small            \normalsize            \large            \Large            \LARGE            \huge            \Huge

Let'due south make the title as large as it can exist (using these simple commands) past choosing \Huge. We'll and then make the subtitle ii steps smaller using \large. When we employ one of these commands they bear on all the text in information technology's scope. Therefore in it'south current state all the remaining text on the page will appear in the size of the subtitle. We'll keep it like this for the author name and caste title but we'll drop downward one size for the academy details and the date:

                        \brainstorm            {titlepage}            \begin            {center}            \vspace*            {1cm}            \Huge            \textbf            {Thesis Title}            \vspace            {0.5cm}            \LARGE            Thesis Subtitle            \vspace            {i.5cm}            \textbf            {Author Name}            \vfill            A thesis presented for the degree of\\            Dr. of Philosophy            \vspace            {0.8cm}            \includegraphics            [width=0.iv\textwidth]            {university}            \Big            Department Name\\            Academy Name\\            Country\\            Date            \cease            {middle}            \end            {titlepage}

Thesis title.png

The abstract

We can also customise other pages, such every bit the abstruse. Instead of using an unnumbered chapter, we'll create a new .tex file, customise the layout so input it. At the top of this file we need to change the page style to plain in order to end the headers being added in. Now in a similar way to the title page we'll add in some custom titles and then the abstract text.

                        \thispagestyle            {plain}            \begin            {center}            \Big            \textbf            {Thesis Title}            \vspace            {0.4cm}            \large            Thesis Subtitle            \vspace            {0.4cm}            \textbf            {Author Proper name}            \vspace            {0.9cm}            \textbf            {Abstract}            \terminate            {center}            Lorem ipsum dolor...

This is what it will expect like added in:

Thesis abstract.png

This concludes our serial on writing a bones thesis. If y'all want to play effectually with the thesis nosotros've created in this series you lot can open the project in Overleaf.