General ⇒ title pages: undefined control sequence

[Mixhael]

I'm trying to implement title pages from Wilson

titlepages.tex:

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\newcommand*{\titleGM}{\begingroup% Gentle Madness 
\drop{0.1\textheight}
\vspace*{\baselineskip} 
\vfill 
	\hbox{% 
	\hspace*{0.2\textwidth}% 
	\rule{1pt}{\textheight} 
	\hspace*{0.05\textwidth}% 
	\parbox[b]{0.75\textwidth}{ 
	\vbox{% 
		\vspace{\drop} 
		{\noindent\HUGE\bfseries title}\\[2\baselineskip] 
		{\Large\itshape subtitle}\\[4\baselineskip] 
		{\Large Authorname}\par 
		\vspace{0.5\textheight} 
		{\noindent University}\\[\baselineskip] 
		}% end of vbox 
		}% end of parbox 
	}% end of hbox 
\vfill 
\null 
\endgroup}

document.tex:

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\documentclass[11pt, twoside, titlepage]{article}
\usepackage{palatino}
\usepackage{paralist}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage[margin=3cm]{geometry}
\citestyle{chicago}
\usepackage{palatcm}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage[Lenny]{fncychap}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{url}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\newlength{\drop}
\input{titlepage}

\begin{document}

\pagestyle{empty} 
\titleGM
\clearpage 

\end{document}

But it gives me the following error in Texshop:

! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again>
{
I.37 \titleGM

?

Any clue?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Mixhael,

instead of \drop{0.1\textheight} write

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\setlength{\drop}{0.1\textheight}

or

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\drop0.1\textheight

Stefan

[Mixhael]

Did that, now I get the following error:

! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> ... {\vspace {\drop } {\noindent \HUGE
\bfseries Title...
I.37 \titleGM

[Stefan Kottwitz]

\HUGE is undefined, use \Huge instead, or if you really need bigger fonts size you could use \fontsize.

Stefan

[Mixhael]

Thanks alot! Just copied the code from the examples, didn't think it would contain any errors....

Still one problem: before the titlepage now a blank page is printed?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It's caused by

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\rule{1pt}{\textheight}

that's too long, make it shorter or remove \vspace*{\baselineskip} before.

Stefan

[Mixhael]

Many thanks!