General ⇒ Print document-title given by \title

[Montag]

Hello,

I'd like to print out the document title at certain points in the document. For this, I'd like to print out (I thought of \thetitle but it doesn't work) the title I defined via \title. Just to clarify: It's a string of words, maybe only one word, but it's not the titlepage.

Is that possible?

I've searched for a solution for good 15 minutes now, but it seems my queries were too general for Google and Bing.

[localghost]

The arguments of \author and \title are stored in special internal macros. Save them to another macro and you can use them wherever you want. If I understand you right, the code below should do what you want.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\title{Using the document title wherever needed}
\author{Montag}

\makeatletter
\let\thetitle\@title
\let\theauthor\@author
\makeatother

\begin{document}
  \maketitle

  The title of this short document is: »\thetitle«.
  Author of this document is: \theauthor.
\end{document}

Note that the sequence of commands is very important. The title and author have to be declared first to make the new commands work.


Thorsten

[Montag]

Thanks a lot, Thorsten, that is what I looked for.

[Montag]

Is there a way these internal commands could be nullified somehow? I just noticed in one document the author and title field are empty and I can't figure out why, that's why I'm asking.

[localghost]

Do you mean accidentally or user intended? Can you give a short example?

[Montag]

Do you mean accidentally or user intended?

Accidentally!

Can you give a short example?

I'd like to, but like I said, I defined the title and author like you showed above and so far I had no problems.
But in one document of mine, the fields stay empty. And I already made a "folder search" in TXC and can't find some second definitions for \title{This is the title} and \author{My name} anywhere. So I guess this code

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\makeatletter
\let\thetitle\@title
\let\theauthor\@author
\makeatother

gets re-set to zero or empty later on.
I don't really understand it. :/

EDIT:
Got it. Clear case of Luser. :/
I accidentally switched the order of the commands you provided in your answer, in which you also underlined the importance of their order.

[paul]

Is there a way these internal commands could be nullified somehow? I just noticed in one document the author and title field are empty and I can't figure out why, that's why I'm asking.

They're cleared by \maketitle, to save memory.

You could do

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\makeatletter
\let\m@ketitle=\maketitle
\def\maketitle{\let\@@author=\@author\let\@@title=\@title
\m@ketitle
\let\author=\@@author\let\title=\@@title}
\makeatother

(and then use \author and \title for those values)