titles
Is there another alternative for maketitle than \begin{titlepage}...\end{titlepage}?
The latter doesn't work for me since I am working with the documentclass article and I dont want the title on an extra page.
In fact I just want the title in 12pt bold font at the very top of my document, under that my name, after that list of contents. But all at the very first page.
The main article could also start at the first page.
What are my options?
You get this error, because you define the two versions of \mytitle inside conditionals. Both of them are false in you example, so the macro never gets defined.
You missing an \ProcessOptions which actually handles the given [phd] option, before the first use of the if's:
%...
\DeclareOption{msc}{\@mscthesistrue}
\ProcessOptions
\def\author#1{\gdef\@author{#1}}
%...
I assume here the code is in a class file.
Please also see the clsguide for more information on how to define options.
You could misuse the \publishers element:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,abstracton,titlepage]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\titlehead{University}
\title{Title}
\subject{Subject}
\author{Author}
\publishers{%
\normalfont\normalsize%
\parbox{0.8\linewidth}{%
Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text.
Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text.
Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text.
}
}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}
Since it’s value normally is centered an in \Large you have to put in it a \parbox of the desired width and set the font back to \normalsize (the \normalfont is a little superfluous here but does no harm at all).
If this doesn’t fits your needs on can redefine {abstract} and \maketitle to let the first collect and store it’s contest and the latter print out the content. But this would be an equal effort as making the title page manually. And only gainful if you need this in more than one or two documents …
How to misuse the \date field to make the abstract appear higher on the page?
\date{%
\today% thats the default I guess
\\[2\baselineskip]% Space between date and abstract
\normalfont\normalsize%
\parbox{0.8\linewidth}{%
Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text.
Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text.
Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text.
}
}
There’s only the little problem that the argument of \date can‘t contain paragraphs (i.e. blank lines or \par) so we must use \\[<dim>] to get a new line an insert some space.
Best Answer
Quick hack: simply place the elements manually.