LyX ⇒ Move the Title, Author Name and Date

[EigenGoofy]

I select my document class as "report" in LyX. The current title stays at the center of the title page, however, I wanna put the title on the top of the page. And put the author name right below the title, and the date should be on the bottom of the page.

How Can I Do that Please? Thank You~

[5gon12eder]

If it is just for one document, a foolproof solution is to omit the \maketitle and instead manually put your stuff as you want it. If it should be a general solution, consider redefining \maketitle.

Here is a minimal example:

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\documentclass{report}

\author{John \and Fred\thanks{Slightly insane\dots}}
\title{The Infinite Everything}
\date{\today}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\maketitle}{
  \begin{titlepage}
    \begin{center}
      \large
      {\LARGE\@title}
      \par\vspace{1ex}
      \begin{tabular}[t]{c}
        \@author
      \end{tabular}
      \vfill
      \@date
    \end{center}
    \@thanks
  \end{titlepage}
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
  \maketitle
  
  The text follows...
\end{document}

Note that the definition must go between \makeatletter and \makeatother to use the macros \@author, \@title and \@date. Also note that \@author should appear inside a tabular as shown to make the \and macro work correctly. You can look up the original definition of \maketitle in the file .../tex/latex/base/report.cls.

[EigenGoofy]

Thank you, 5gon12eder!

Although I have not tried your code yet, I guess it will work!

By the way, I'd solved my problem in the following way. I put the following code on the front of the document without using LyX to explicitly specify any title, author, and date environment.

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\begin{titlepage}
\raggedleft
\definecolor{brownie}{RGB}{85,65,40}
\pagecolor{brownie}
\textcolor{white}{
{\large Oinker\\[1in]}
{\Huge\scshape The Story of Pig\\[.2in]}
\vfill
{\itshape Dec. 5th 2011}
}
\end{titlepage}