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A LaTeX class for books, reports or theses based on https://github.com/kenohori/thesis and https://github.com/Tufte-LaTeX/tufte-latex.
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Prevent title page from printing #183

Closed jacubero closed 3 years ago

jacubero commented 3 years ago

Summary

Prevent title page from printing

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I wonder if it is possible not to print the title page, and to start with the copyright page, for instance. When I try to remove the \title{} command, I get the error:

! LaTeX Error: No \title given.

fmarotta commented 3 years ago

Hi, unfortunately it is not possible (or at least not easy). In fact, both the title page and the copyright page are printed out by the same command: \maketitle. Basically, first you use some commands like "\title{}", "\uppertitleback{}", etc. to define the contents, and then \maketitle arranges everything on the appropriate pages. If you don't want the title, I think the easiest thing to do is to omit the \maketitle command from your document, and then optionally create some special pages for the copyright, the quote, or what not. You can use standard LaTeX for that :) Please let me know if you need further help, or ask on tex.stackexchange.com.

AlexanderZeilmann commented 3 years ago

Additional comment: The \title of the document does not only appear on the title page but also for example in the metadata. This is why you get the error if you do not define the \title.

I think the easiest way to solve your problem, is to create the document with a \title and a title page and then delete all unwanted pages from the PDF using a PDF editor.

fmarotta commented 3 years ago

Good idea, using a PDF editor would be better :)

jacubero commented 3 years ago

Thank you for your answers. I tried using PDF editors some time ago, but they had a drawback (at least those I tried): They removed the pdf bookmarks. I will like to maintain the bookmarks. Do you know if it is possible to do it?

fmarotta commented 3 years ago

Right, removing a page probably messes up all the page numbers, so it's difficult to preserve bookmarks. I don't know any editor with this feature, sorry about that.

AlexanderZeilmann commented 2 years ago

Master PDF Editor can delete the first page without destroying the bookmarks (at least in the two test documents I tried).

The current version of Master PDF Editor (Version 5) costs 70$, but you can still find installers for version 4 (which was free) all over the internet.