titles
So far I have the following code for some document;
\begin{document}
\title{..}
\author{..}
\maketitle
\end{document}
When I create the file, the title is always centred but at the middle of the page. Is there any way to move the title (and author) to the top of the page?
Apologies if I am missing something simple – at this stage I am simply experimenting with the software which I will use extensively next semester.
As a personal preference, I would forego the use of \maketitle in favour of having a little more freedom in typesetting the different style of the title page and what follows. In that regard, consider the following:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\usepackage{fancyhdr}% http://ctan.org/pkg/fancyhdr
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\pagestyle{fancy}
% Global fancy header style
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{Name, Title, Section}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\setlength{\headheight}{14.5pt}
\begin{document}
% Set fancy header style for title page only (local fancy header style)
\fancypagestyle{titlepage}{
\lhead{Name of Grant Council}% Grant name
\rhead{}% Remove global (right) header
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
}
\thispagestyle{titlepage}
\begingroup
\centering \Huge
Name\\Grant\\Research proposal\\Part B\\Title\\Acronym\\Length\\
\endgroup
\section*{test}
\lipsum[1-20]
\end{document}
The "title" is typeset using \centering\Huge, so there's no bold. Headings are set for the first page under the fancy style titlepage, that modifies only the title page headings (via \thispagestyle{titlepage}) - that is, this is a local change. The lipsum package was included merely to populate the document with some dummy text.
Of course, spacing after the heading can be adjusted as required (using, say, \bigskip or other vertical spacing techniques).
The dual title in twocolumn mode causes the page breaks. Perhaps you'd just be interested in setting the title manually. Below I've taken the \maketitle constructions from the titling package code:
\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}% Just for this example
\begin{document}
\twocolumn[{
\begin{center}
\LARGE First title
\end{center}
\vskip 2em
\begin{center}
\large \lineskip .75em%
\begin{tabular}[t]{c}
Author1, Author2
\end{tabular}\par
\end{center}
\begin{center}
\large \today
\end{center}
\vspace{2\baselineskip}
\begin{center}
\LARGE Second title
\end{center}
\vskip 2em
\begin{center}
\large \lineskip .75em%
\begin{tabular}[t]{c}
Author1, Author2
\end{tabular}\par
\end{center}
\begin{center}
\large \today
\end{center}
}]
\lipsum[1-5]
\end{document}
You can now adjust the spacing and font to your liking.
Best Answer
Another way of doing this is not to use
\maketitleat all. Instead typeset the author and title in any font you like and enclose the material in stretches:\begin{titlepage}gives you an empty page. The stretches align the enclosed material vertically. In this case, the whitespace below is twice the size of the whitespace above. Experiment with the two stretch values to fit your needs.