Page Layout ⇒ External Cover

[bkarpuz]

Dear friends,

I need help with the external cover format of my university.
I attached the sample.
It is possible that someone can help me with that?
I think I need to change the line distance between two lines to have it done (see the distance between INSTITUTION and MASTER THEISIS, and the distance between SUPERVISOR Supervisor Name LASTNAME).
Thanks again.

bkarpuz

[localghost]

The general layout of the page is no problem. But the "X" on the bottom of the page suggests me that there is a page number and this page may be inside the document. Concerning this there is some more information necessary because this page can be typeset in a titlepage environment or as a normal page. An external cover page would not need a page number. That's what irritates me a little bit.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[bkarpuz]

localghost, thanks for the comment, please ignore the page number.

[localghost]

I assume the dashed frame box is only to show the dimension of the data field. Take this as example.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{txfonts}

\begin{document}
  \begin{titlepage}
    \centering
    ~
    \vfill
    \begin{minipage}[t][6.5cm][t]{10cm}
      \centering
      \large
      INSTITUTION \\[\baselineskip]
      MASTER THESIS \\[\baselineskip]
      Name LASTNAME \\[2\baselineskip]
      SUPERVISOR \\
      Supervisor Name LASTNAME \\[\baselineskip]
      DEPARTMENT \\[\baselineskip]
      DATE
    \end{minipage}
  \end{titlepage}
\end{document}

If the page dimensions deviate from the general demands of your department, you should generate this single page with pdflatex and include it later with pdfpages in your final document.

[bkarpuz]

I assume the dashed frame box is only to show the dimension of the data field. Take this as example.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{txfonts}

\begin{document}
  \begin{titlepage}
    \centering
    ~
    \vfill
    \begin{minipage}[t][6.5cm][t]{10cm}
      \centering
      \large
      INSTITUTION \\[\baselineskip]
      MASTER THESIS \\[\baselineskip]
      Name LASTNAME \\[2\baselineskip]
      SUPERVISOR \\
      Supervisor Name LASTNAME \\[\baselineskip]
      DEPARTMENT \\[\baselineskip]
      DATE
    \end{minipage}
  \end{titlepage}
\end{document}

If the page dimensions deviate from the general demands of your department, you should generate this single page with pdflatex and include it later with pdfpages in your final document.

localghost many thanks for the help.
But when I put this into my file, it changes some parts.
I guess this is because of the following codes:

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\textwidth=15cm
\textheight=23cm
\oddsidemargin=0cm
\evensidemargin=0cm
\topskip=0cm
\headheight=0cm
\topmargin=0cm
\parindent=0.3in
\parskip=3pt plus 1pt minus 1pt
\def\baselinestretch{1.25}\large\normalsize
\hbadness=3000
\vbadness=30000
\sloppy

When I have this code I could not modify the one you gave.
Can you give me one more hand?

[localghost]

If the page dimensions deviate from the general demands of your department, you should generate this single page with pdflatex and include it later with pdfpages in your final document.

I think I made clear how to handle this title page.

[...] But when I put this into my file, it changes some parts.
I guess this is because of the following codes:

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\textwidth=15cm
\textheight=23cm
\oddsidemargin=0cm
\evensidemargin=0cm
\topskip=0cm
\headheight=0cm
\topmargin=0cm
\parindent=0.3in
\parskip=3pt plus 1pt minus 1pt
\def\baselinestretch{1.25}\large\normalsize
\hbadness=3000
\vbadness=30000
\sloppy

When I have this code I could not modify the one you gave. [...]

Page dimensions should never be set this way. That's a job for the geometry package. Please take a look into l2tabu to avoid the biggest sins. Regarding the title page, I wonder how these settings correspond with the demands from your department.

[bkarpuz]

...
I think I made clear how to handle this title page.
...
Page dimensions should never be set this way. That's a job for the geometry package. Please take a look into l2tabu to avoid the biggest sins. Regarding the title page, I wonder how these settings correspond with the demands from your department.

Thanks for your replies, localghost.
I have to say that I am a newbie for LaTeX, and my department provides me some settings for my PhD thesis but not in LaTeX.
They just told me the settings for MS Word, but I want to type it in LaTeX because I think LaTeX is much more better when compared to MS Word.
I now see that geometry class is the one I need.

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\usepackage[top=46.9mm,bottom=30mm,left=30mm,right=30mm]{geometry} %(3cm spaces from each sides)

But while setting \baselinestretch to 1.5, I have problems.
I guess that I have to set this after the cover page you gave to me, but this time the command

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\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}

seems useless when I check in the pdf.

Thanks, bests.

bkarpuz

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi bkarpuz,

perhaps use the setspace package instead of modifying \baselinestretch by yourself, its documentation is contained in setspace.sty itself.

Stefan

[localghost]

Stefan already mentioned the setspace package which provides the \onehalfspacing command. Insert this command right after the title page you created according to my earlier suggestions.