Document Classes ⇒ I can't get titling package to work

[ajnabi]

Can someone please point me in the right direction with this titling package?

I have no idea how to make it work. All I'm trying to do, to start with, is make a title with a line above it and a line below it.

I know in this example I can do this:

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\title{This is the pretitle\\
This is the title\\
This is the posttitle}\maketitle

but I need to get the titling package working.

This is what I've tried.

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%% LyX 1.4.2 created this file.  For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

\makeatletter
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% User specified LaTeX commands.
\usepackage{titling}

\begin{document}
\pretitle{this is the pretitle}

\title{this is the title}

\posttitle{This is the post titilte}
\maketitle
\end{document}

Thank you,
Frank

[gmedina]

Hi ajnabi,
Try something like this:

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\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{titling}

\pretitle{\noindent\rule{\linewidth}{2pt}\begin{center}\LARGE}
\posttitle{\end{center}\noindent\rule{\linewidth}{2pt}}
\title{this is the title}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
...
\end{document}

Here you can find documentation for titling.

[ajnabi]

Thanks gmedina,

That cleared up a good bit about how to use the package. I read the documention but I'm still learning a good bit about LaTeX and couldn't quite figure out what to do.

I changed the example you gave, to printing three text lines, and I have one minor problem.

The following code works:

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\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{titling}

\pretitle{\begin{center}\LARGE This is the pretitle \end{center}\begin{center}}

\posttitle{\end{center}\begin{center}\LARGE This is the post title\end{center}}

\title{\huge This is the title}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
...
\end{document}

except when I change:
\title{\huge This is the title}
to
\title{\HUGE This is the title}

I get the following error:

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! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \HUGE
                 This is the title
l.16 \title{\HUGE This is the title}

Any idea why HUGE is not accepted?

Thanks for the help.
Frank

[gmedina]

Well, try \Huge (as far as I know LaTeX can't recognize \HUGE). The type size commands supported by LaTeX are:

• \tiny
  \scriptsize
  \footnotesize
  \small
  \normalsize (default)
  \large
  \Large
  \LARGE
  \huge
  \Huge

By the way, I do not use LyX but this line seems a little odd to me: \documentclass[english]{article}; why do you declare english as a global option?

[ajnabi]

Thanks again! Call me dyslexic.

this line seems a little odd to me: \documentclass[english]{article}; why do you declare english as a global option?

It is automatically generated by LyX. I think it has to do with the package babel. To make the post cleaner I removed the line:
\usepackage{babel}
which is also generated by LyX. I didn't notice the "english" declaration.

Appreciate the help.

Frank