[Tex/LaTex] Thesis’ title-page template, Simple style with only a vertical line

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Goodmorning everybody,
I am compliting the last page of my bachelor degree thesis. As last page, I have decided to leave the title-page 😉

I have searched for some nice templates around the web, and I have come to the idea of a very simple and neated page with only a vertical line and the requested data (thesis title, personal name, univ. name, supervisor name).

The template I am trying to recreate is the following (from Siarhei Khirevich's discussion paper): Template (26 MB) But, basically, I do not know how to do it.

What I have achieved is some like this (I have found this code on another webpage, but unfortunately I can't find it out anymore ;( )

\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}

\hbox{
\hspace*{0\textwidth} % Whitespace to the left of the title page
\rule{1.5pt}{\textheight} % Vertical line
\parbox[b]{0.75\textwidth}{ % Paragraph box which restricts text to less than the width of the page
        {\noindent\Huge\bfseries Complexity \\[0.3\baselineskip] Economics}\\[2\baselineskip] % Title
        {\large \textit{with the supervision of Prof.}}\\[4\baselineskip] %     Tagline or further description
        {\Large \textsc{My name}} % 

        \vspace{0.1\textheight} % Whitespace between the title block and the publisher
        {\noindent University of X \\
        Course
        Accademic Year
        }\\[\baselineskip] % Publisher and logo
    }
}
\end{document}

The goal:
enter image description here

Could someone please address me on how to get the template done? 😉
Thanks
😉

Best Answer

This is the rough approximation without tikz. With tikz, it is cake walk.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[pass]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\newgeometry{left=2in,top=0cm,bottom=0cm}
\noindent
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\rule{1.5pt}{0.3\textheight}% Vertical line

\vspace{5mm}
\noindent
{\Huge\bfseries Complexity \\[0.3\baselineskip]
Economics}\\[2\baselineskip]
{\large \textit{with the supervision of Prof.}}\\[4\baselineskip]
{\Large \textsc{My name}} %

\vspace{0.1\textheight} % Whitespace between the title block and the publisher
\noindent
University of X \\
Course
Accademic Year
\\[\baselineskip] % Publisher and logo
\makebox[0pt][l]{\rule{1.5pt}{0.35\textheight}}% Vertical line
\end{minipage}
\end{titlepage}
\end{document}

enter image description here

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[Tex/LaTex] Wavy vertical line on title page

For book class, following code is a starting point for you. You can control all parameters of wavy in code.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{epigraph}
\usepackage{times,microtype}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations}

\definecolor{titlepagecolor}{cmyk}{1,.60,0,.40}

\DeclareFixedFont{\titlefont}{T1}{ppl}{b}{it}{0.5in}

\newcommand\titlepagedecoration{%
\pgfdeclaredecoration{complete sines}{initial}
{
    \state{initial}[
        width=+0pt,
        next state=sine,
        persistent precomputation={\pgfmathsetmacro\matchinglength{
            \pgfdecoratedinputsegmentlength / int(\pgfdecoratedinputsegmentlength/\pgfdecorationsegmentlength)}
            \setlength{\pgfdecorationsegmentlength}{\matchinglength pt}
        }] {}
    \state{sine}[width=\pgfdecorationsegmentlength]{
        \pgfpathsine{\pgfpoint{0.25\pgfdecorationsegmentlength}{0.5\pgfdecorationsegmentamplitude}}
        \pgfpathcosine{\pgfpoint{0.25\pgfdecorationsegmentlength}{-0.5\pgfdecorationsegmentamplitude}}
        \pgfpathsine{\pgfpoint{0.25\pgfdecorationsegmentlength}{-0.5\pgfdecorationsegmentamplitude}}
        \pgfpathcosine{\pgfpoint{0.25\pgfdecorationsegmentlength}{0.5\pgfdecorationsegmentamplitude}}
}
    \state{final}{}
}

\begin{tikzpicture}[
    every path/.style={
        decoration={
            complete sines,
            segment length=1cm,
            amplitude=0.5cm
        },
        decorate
    }]
\draw [thick](0,0) -- (0,12);

\end{tikzpicture}
}

\begin{document}

\begin{titlepage}

\noindent
\Huge \textbf{Book Title}\par
\epigraph{From  Universe}%
{\textit{Somewhere 2013}\\ \textsc{John Doe}}
%

\titlepagedecoration
\end{titlepage}

\end{document}

enter image description here

[Tex/LaTex] UNAM thesis title page (portada tesis UNAM)

It took me time to write good code to generate a title page for a UNAM thesis and I think this could be very useful for somebody that is writing his/her thesis work in latex

The key to resolve the problem was to use the minipage environment. To use it correctly I found very useful Wikipedia's documentation : Latex/Boxes . The trick was to use this environment to make a grid for title page to correctly put each element of the title page for the thesis

The code I wrote was the following

\documentclass[a4paper]{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{empty}

\begin{minipage}[c][0.1\textheight][c]{0.2\textwidth}
\begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=2cm, height=2cm]{escudo}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}[c][0.1\textheight][t]{0.65\textwidth}
\begin{center}
    {\scshape Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico}
    \vspace{.3cm}
    \hrule height2.5pt
    \vspace{.1cm}
    \hrule height1pt
    \vspace{.3cm}
    {\scshape  Facultad de Ciencias}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}

\begin{minipage}[c][0.6\textheight][t]{0.2\textwidth}
\begin{center}
\hskip2pt
\vrule width2.5pt height10cm
        \hskip1mm
        \vrule width1pt height10cm \\
        \includegraphics[height=3cm]{escudoFC}
        \end{center}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}[c][0.6\textheight][t]{0.65\textwidth}
  \begin{center}
    {\Large \scshape {T\'itulo de la tesis}}

    \vspace{2cm}

    \makebox[5cm][c]{\LARGE TESIS}  \\[8pt]
    QUE PARA OBTENER EL T\'iTULO DE:\\[5pt]
    {\large \textbf{{t\'itulo}}}\\[40pt]            
    PRESENTA:\\[5pt]
    \textbf{{Nombre del tesista}}

    \vspace{1cm}

    {\small DIRECTOR DEL TRABAJO:\\ {Nombre del director del trabajo}}

    \vspace{0.5cm}

    {Lugar,}{ }{Fecha}
  \end{center}
\end{minipage}

\end{document}

This code produce the following output

UNAM thesis title page

To view the use of minipage environment to design the title page you can use the following code

\documentclass[a4paper]{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{empty}
% port
\fbox{
\begin{minipage}[c][0.1\textheight][c]{0.2\textwidth}
    \begin{center}
        \includegraphics[width=2cm, height=2cm]{escudo}
    \end{center}
\end{minipage}
}
\fbox{
\begin{minipage}[c][0.1\textheight][t]{0.65\textwidth}
    \begin{center}
        {\scshape Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico}
        \vspace{.3cm}
        \hrule height2.5pt
        \vspace{.1cm}
        \hrule height1pt
        \vspace{.3cm}
        {\scshape  Facultad de Ciencias}
    \end{center}
\end{minipage}
}

\fbox{
\begin{minipage}[c][0.6\textheight][t]{0.2\textwidth}
    \begin{center}
    \hskip2pt
    \vrule width2.5pt height10cm
        \hskip1mm
        \vrule width1pt height10cm \\
        \includegraphics[height=3cm]{escudoFC}
        \end{center}
\end{minipage}
}
\fbox{
\begin{minipage}[c][0.6\textheight][t]{0.65\textwidth}
      \begin{center}
        {\Large \scshape {T\'itulo de la tesis}}

        \vspace{2cm}

        \makebox[5cm][c]{\LARGE TESIS}  \\[8pt]
        QUE PARA OBTENER EL T\'ITULO DE:\\[5pt]
        {\large \textbf{{t\'itulo}}}\\[40pt]            
        PRESENTA:\\[5pt]
        \textbf{{Nombre del tesista}}

        \vspace{1cm}

        {\small DIRECTOR DEL TRABAJO:\\ {Nombre del director del trabajo}}

        \vspace{0.5cm}

        {Lugar,}{ }{Fecha}
      \end{center}
\end{minipage}
}

\end{document}

To produce the followint output

enter image description here

I hope this will be useful for somebody that writes his thesis work in latex

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