[Tex/LaTex] Lost the title page, author and date

datetimetitles

I remember when I did type in LaTex before it would give me a front page to the document which said Title and a date.. Now it just begins right from the document body itself. No Author, No date, No front Page, No title.

\documentclass{book}
\title{The Triangulation of Titling Data in
   Non-Linear Gaussian Fashion via $\rho$ Series}
\date{October 31, 475}
\author{John Doe\\ Magic Department, Richard Miles University
    \and Richard Row, \LaTeX\ Academy}
\date{April 4,2013}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
 Hello
\end{titlepage}
\end{document}

Best Answer

By way of demonstration, \maketitle behaves differently depending on the class the document uses. So...

book class with \maketitle

\documentclass{book}
\title{The Triangulation of Titling Data in
   Non-Linear Gaussian Fashion via $\rho$ Series}
\date{October 31, 475}
\author{John Doe\\ Magic Department, Richard Miles University
    \and Richard Row, \LaTeX\ Academy}
\date{April 4,2013}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\kant[1]
\end{document}

title page

report with \maketitle produces a similar result.

article class with \maketitle

\documentclass{article}
\title{The Triangulation of Titling Data in
   Non-Linear Gaussian Fashion via $\rho$ Series}
\date{October 31, 475}
\author{John Doe\\ Magic Department, Richard Miles University
    \and Richard Row, \LaTeX\ Academy}
\date{April 4,2013}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\kant[1]
\end{document}

title runs into first page

article class with titlepage

\documentclass{report}
\title{The Triangulation of Titling Data in
   Non-Linear Gaussian Fashion via $\rho$ Series}
\date{October 31, 475}
\author{John Doe\\ Magic Department, Richard Miles University
    \and Richard Row, \LaTeX\ Academy}
\date{April 4,2013}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
 \maketitle
\end{titlepage}
\kant[1]
\end{document}

Note the use of \maketitle within the titlepage environment. This is because titlepage just gives you an empty page to design as you will. If you don't put anything in it, it is just an empty page.

a title page again

book class with titlepage produces similar output.

An easier way to achieve the same result given that you don't really want to customise the layout of the title would be to just use \maketitle with the book class (as above) or, in article, to use the titlepage option for the class:

\documentclass[titlepage]{article}
\title{The Triangulation of Titling Data in
   Non-Linear Gaussian Fashion via $\rho$ Series}
\date{October 31, 475}
\author{John Doe\\ Magic Department, Richard Miles University
    \and Richard Row, \LaTeX\ Academy}
\date{April 4,2013}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\kant[1]
\end{document}
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