Text Formatting ⇒ maketitle adjustment

[xbender]

Hello,
I would like to ask if it is possible to adjust some settings of "maketitle" command. I have "title" and "author" (in which I have 2 authors as I am one of co-authors). I would like to adjust (increase) the vertical spacing between Title and Authors. Is it possible? how can I do that?

I would also welcome a possibility to change the fontsize of "author" tag. I would like the names to be bigger than the name of institutions that we are from.

example of my code

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\title{Title}
\author
{
   Name author 1 
\\ Institution 
\\ Department
\\ University %author 1 works in "institution" and studies for PhD at University (so he is active in both)
\and 
Name author 2 \\
Institution \\
Department
}
\date{}
\maketitle

I will appreciate any help! thank you

[frabjous]

Depending on what document class you're using (which you didn't tell us...) you might be able use the titling package to customize the effects of \maketitle.

[pepperedmoth]

I, personally, would forego the whole "maketitle" bit and manually format the title. It's not hard. As you can see, you can specify the space between lines and the font of each line.

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\begin{center}
\Huge{Very Big Title}\\[1cm]
\Large{Author One and Author Two}\\[5cm]
\large{Your College\\Your University\\{\today}}
\end{center}
\end{titlepage}
\stepcounter{page}
\end{document}