GeneralMissing Title, Date, Author in final document

LaTeX specific issues not fitting into one of the other forums of this category.
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bcro
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Missing Title, Date, Author in final document

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Hi guys. I've been teaching myself Latex, and have recently hit a snag I was not able to find info on elsewhere. It's probably something simple.

The following test code:

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\title{Title}
\date{June 9, 1977}
\author{Name}

testingtestingtestingtestingtestingtestingtestingtesting
testingtestingtestingtestingtestingtestingtestingtesting

\end{document}
compiles without error, but the title, date and author do not show up in the DVI or PDF document (I've tried both). I've seen this in both Emacs/Auctex and TeXworks, using MikTeX 2.8. In all cases, I get the same result regardless of placing the \begin{document} line before or after the title/date/author entries. What gives?

No need to spare my ego if I've missed something obvious. Any suggestions or redirections to other posts would be helpful. Thanks.

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bcro
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Re: Missing Title, Date, Author in final document

Post by bcro »

\maketitle

Yeh, I got it. Sorry for cluttering up the forum.

Moderator, feel free to remove this post.
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Missing Title, Date, Author in final document

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bcro wrote:[…] No need to spare my ego if I've missed something obvious. Any suggestions or redirections to other posts would be helpful. […]
Sometimes it can be very useful to read some basic documentation [1]. This can spare a lot of time. Especially in cases like this.

[1] View topic: LaTeX Resources for Beginners


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten
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