General ⇒ page in blank?

[maquina]

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
%\usepackage{graphicx}

\title {Buffon's Needle}

\author {name \\institute \\city}

\begin{document}

\begin{center}
\maketitle
\end{center}

\pagebreak

\section{Introduction}

$\frac {2}{3}$

\end{document}

i am new to latex (First day )
didn't get why starts with a page in blank and them do what was supposed to do
can anyone help me? tks

[gmedina]

The problem was the center environment. You don't really need this environment, since the default format for the titlepage is centered. You can use the class option titlepage if you want this information to appear on a page of its own.

A modified version of your code:

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\documentclass[12pt,titlepage,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\title{Buffon's Needle}
\author{name \\institute \\city} 

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\section{Introduction}

$\frac{2}{3}$

\end{document}

The lshort and l2tabu documents can be useful.

[maquina]

interesting.. the l2 tabu i didn't have
and thanks

[maquina]

how to puter Nº in latex?
N^\b o the thing after it goes strange
putting {}
putting $$ gives a error can't put b
any idea?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi maquina,

try

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\usepackage{textcomp}
...
N\textordmasculine

Stefan

[balf]

The frenchb option of babel defines \no and \No. You might use babel with this option even if you don't write in french and temporarily change the language via a macro. Or adapt the code from frenchpro with something like (maybe adding some kerning):
\newcommand{\No}{\ensuremath{\mathrm N^{\mathrm o}}}.

B.A.