[Tex/LaTex] Title does not appear when LaTeX code is compiled

titles

I use Texmaker 4.0.1 to write LaTeX code. I have written the following code:

\documentclass[12pt,onecolumn,oneside,a4paper]{article}
\begin{document}
\title{test}
some text
\end{document}

I saved it with the name test.tex and compiled it with pressing F6 -> F6 -> F2 -> F9 in succession. When I press F7 (View PDF) I see no title in the pdf but only "some text" that is, title does not appear.

Later, I have written the following code and saved it with name test1.tex:

\documentclass[12pt,oneside,onecolumn,a4paper]{article}
\begin{document}
\title{some title}
\end{document}

When I compile it pressing F6 -> F6 -> F2 -> F9 in succession, the following message appears,

test1.dvi -> test1.pdf ** ERROR ** Could not open specified DVI file: test1.dvi Output file removed.

And neither dvi or pdf file is made.

I use Miktex 2.9 on Windows 7.

Best Answer

To make a title you need \maketitle where you want the title to appear.(\title, \author just save the information for use by \maketitle)

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With these, your code becomes

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\title{Some title}

\author{My Name}
\date{}

\paragraph{}
{%   <-- starts a group
\large \centering
My Report \par
for the purpose \par
\today \par
}%   <-- ends that group

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\tableofcontents
\clearpage
\end{document}

giving

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Edit to address the comment.

You can use re-define \maketitle or use titling package. Here is an attempt using second option.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titling}
\begin{document}
\pretitle{%
    \begin{center}\LARGE
    \begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
        \large \centering
        My Report \par\vskip 0.5em
        for the purpose \par\vskip 0.5em
        \today \par
    \end{minipage}
    \vskip 1em
}
\posttitle{\par\end{center}\vskip 0.5em}
\title{Some title}

\author{My Name}
\date{}

\maketitle

\thispagestyle{empty}

\clearpage
\tableofcontents
\clearpage
\end{document}

enter image description here

Here is a simpler version which adds extra details inside \title itself:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\title{{%   <-- starts a group
\large
My Report \\[0.75ex]
for the purpose \\[0.75ex]
\today \\[0.5em]
}%   <-- ends that group
Some title}

\author{My Name}
\date{}

\maketitle

\thispagestyle{empty}

\clearpage
\tableofcontents
\clearpage
\end{document}

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