horizontal alignmentspacingtitles
I'm trying to format a title for my document. Normally, I write <Title> \hfill \today, to have a title nicely split into two columns, each aligned at the left and right margin, respectively.
Now I want to add my name into the middle, i.e. I want to split the title into three columns: aligned left, center, and right. How do I do this? I tried tabbing, but I don't know how to configure the hspace{} correctly to get three columns of equal length.
There is a difference between titlepage and the cover of a thesis.
The titlepage is inside your thesis and should obey the default layout.
The cover is usually outside and can/should be centered. To get a centered cover my approach is to separate it in a second tex document and include it with pdfpages.
\includepdf{cover/cover.pdf}
And my cover.tex
\documentclass[
pdftex,
fontsize=11pt,
a4paper
]{scrbook}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[a4paper,includeall,bindingoffset=0cm,margin=2cm,
marginparsep=0cm,marginparwidth=0cm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\thispagestyle{empty}
...
\end{titlepage}
\end{document}
This approach is preferable because often you have to hand in cover and the thesis as separate files for print and you don't have to manipulate the default type area.
If you specify totalwidth of the columns, it seems to work:
\documentclass[final]{beamer}
\mode<presentation> {
\usetheme{Boadilla}
}
\usepackage[orientation=landscape, size=a0]{beamerposter}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{}
\vfill
\begin{columns}[totalwidth=\textwidth]
\begin{column}{\textwidth}
\begin{block}{\centering \vspace{10mm} \Huge{It's a Title}\\\huge{Author\\Institution}\vspace{10mm}}
\end{block}
\end{column}
\end{columns}
\begin{columns}[totalwidth=\textwidth]
\begin{column}{0.31\textwidth}
\begin{block}{\centering \vspace{3mm} \LARGE This is a block \vspace{3mm}}
There's some text in it
\end{block}
\end{column}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% MIDDLE COLUMN
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{column}{0.31\textwidth}
\begin{block}{\centering \vspace{3mm} \LARGE It's a middle block}
And it also has text
\end{block}
\end{column}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% RIGHT COLUMN
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{column}{0.31\textwidth}
\begin{block}{\centering \vspace{3mm} \LARGE A Cool Thing \vspace{3mm}}
Text and stuff
\end{block}
\end{column}
\end{columns}
\vfill
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Best Answer
This is probably the easiest way of doing it:
Note that the first option inserts equal spacing between the left and right entries. This would only center the
An Authorif they are of equal width (not always the case). The second option centers the content regardless of the length of the left/right component. Since each component is placed in a box of width0pt, overlapping could occur, but I'm not sure whether this is a concern. Of course, that can be updated, if needed.Note also that
\largeis a switch and not a macro (taking an argument). So, I've included it inside{...}. Also ending it with a paragraph break to allow for proper vertical alignment/spacing due to a different\baselineskip.\noindent, of course, removes the regular paragraph indent inserted for regular paragraph text.