line-spacingtitles
I have a simple problem but I didn't manage to find any answer for it. In my title page, I just used
\title{Name of the title}
then
\hrule height 0,1cm \leavevmode \\[0,5cm]
{\Huge{\textbf{\@title}}}\\[0,5cm]
\hrule height 0,1cm \leavevmode \\[0,5cm]
to print the title of my document.
But it takes more than 3 lines on the PDF file, and I have a different spacing between the 1st and 2nd line compared to the 2nd and 3rd, which is a bit frustrating.
Anyone got an idea of why ?
Make sure to end the paragraph (using \par, for example) before leaving the group; compare:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
% wrong
{\itshape\LARGE
Dunt venim dolorerosto do odit
ametum vulla conum dolore
conulput in vero od el
Dunt venim dolorerosto do odit
ametum vulla conum dolore
conulput in vero od el
}
% right
{\itshape\LARGE
Dunt venim dolorerosto do odit
ametum vulla conum dolore
conulput in vero od el
Dunt venim dolorerosto do odit
ametum vulla conum dolore
conulput in vero od el\par
}
\end{document}
The reason why a \par (or some form of paragraph ending) is needed is that \LARGE (and the other font size changing commands) changes the the value for \baselineskip and \par is the command that ends the paragraph and applies the right \baselineskip.
Although the memoir document class offers a customizable \maketitle command, I'd rather design this page from scratch (this gives more freedom). Here's one possibility using the titlingpage environment and a variation of one of the titles contained in the titlepages document; adjust the settings according to your needs:
\documentclass{memoir}
\newlength\drop
\makeatletter
\newcommand*\titleM{\begingroup% Misericords, T&H p 153
\setlength\drop{0.08\textheight}
\centering
\vspace*{\drop}
{\Huge\bfseries The Title}\\[\baselineskip]
{\scshape the subtitle}\\[\baselineskip]
\vfill
{\large\scshape the author}\par
\vfill
{\scshape \@date}\par
\vspace*{2\drop}
\endgroup}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{titlingpage}
\titleM
\end{titlingpage}
\end{document}
As I mentioned before, another option is to use the various hooks provided by the class to customize the title page using the \maketitle command; here's a simple example using this approach (the hooks and their default definitions can be found in the documentation, pages 62 and 63):
\documentclass{memoir}
\pretitle{\begin{center}\Huge\bfseries}
\title{The Title}
\posttitle{\par\vskip1em{\normalfont\normalsize\scshape the subtitle\par\vfill}\end{center}}
\author{The Author}
\predate{\vfill\begin{center}\large}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlingpage}
\maketitle
\end{titlingpage}
\end{document}
Best Answer
You gotta use paragraphs, not line breaks.
They guy who invented that dreadful rule business put that on wikibooks and it lives on. Better use no lines at all.