Text Formatting ⇒ formatting titlepage

[sgp]

Hi all,
I started writing title page for my thesis. When i use \usepackage{fullpage} which i require for other pages, the titlepage looks a bit ugly. is there a way to prevent full page for titlepage and make it work for all other pages. Also one more doubt, i want to write only preface in one page and that too in the center of the page, and rest of the page left empty. is there a way to do this.

[localghost]

[...] When i use \usepackage{fullpage} which i require for other pages, the titlepage looks a bit ugly. is there a way to prevent full page for titlepage and make it work for all other pages. [...]

The fullpage package is not recommendable. The geometry package offers structures for easy page setup and its modification within a document. Just refer to its manual.

[...] Also one more doubt, i want to write only preface in one page and that too in the center of the page, and rest of the page left empty. is there a way to do this.

Depending on the used document class, an adapted abstract environment should do.


Best regards
Thorsten

[sgp]

hi thorsten,

thanks for the reply. using \begin{abstract} ... \end{abstract} works fine. but its producing a heading named abstract, can you tell me how to remove it.

thanks in advance,
regards,
sgp.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi sgp,

if you would tell us your document class we could show how to change it. The abstract environment is implemented by the class.

Stefan

[sgp]

hi stefan,

i am using \documentclass{report}.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

In that case and if you don't use the twocolumn option you could use the quotation environment instead of abstract. \quotation is used internally, have a look if it gives the same output but without the heading.

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\begin{quotation}
  abstract text
\end{quotation}

Stefan

[sgp]

@stefan. that solves the problem, but the justification is different. what could be the reason.

regards,
sgp.

[sgp]

@stefan
i found out. i used \begin{quote}. it worked. thanks for the reply.

regards,
sgp.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Interesting, because report uses \quotation. Excerpt rom report.cls:

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\if@titlepage
  \newenvironment{abstract}{%
      \titlepage
      ...
     {\par\vfil\null\endtitlepage}
\else
  \newenvironment{abstract}{%
      \if@twocolumn
        \section*{\abstractname}%
      \else
        \small
        \begin{center}%
          {\bfseries \abstractname\vspace{-.5em}\vspace{\z@}}%
        \end{center}%
        \quotation
      \fi}
      {\if@twocolumn\else\endquotation\fi}
\fi

But quote is fine as well of course.

Stefan