Following this answer I'm trying to customize the cover of a report, which works fine for articles, but doesn't seem to work for reports. For example:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\makeatletter
\def\@maketitle{
\raggedright
\begin{center}
{\Huge \bfseries \sffamily \@title }\\[4ex]
{\Large \@author}\\[4ex]
\@date\\[8ex]
\end{center}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\title{Report}
\author{Author}
\date{Septembre 2013}
\maketitle
\end{document}
works, but when I change article
to report
the custom title page layout is lost. I could manually use e.g. \begin{titlepage} ..
, but I actually like the idea of having the definition of the title page elsewhere (for example a custom .sty
file) and only including title{}
, author{}
, and date{}
in each document.
Can this somehow be done using the report
class?
Best Answer
\maketitle
is not a core command; it is defined in each classes. Inarticle
, it is defined differently from inreport
orbook
.So why don't you redefine
\maketitle
directly? No need of redefining\@maketitle
.Btw to keep the formatting, i.e. apply
\raggedright
for only the title, you need to place the whole thing inside a group.