Document Classes ⇒ Memoir titlepages

[mohbana]

First hi everyone , this is officially my first post!

I'd like some help with getting the examples from http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/C ... pages.html or http://www.mail-archive.com/ctan-ann@da ... 00979.html working, it's Peter Wilson's doc named Some Examples of Title Pages. Most of the example don't seem to work as expected i get plenty of errors, which is surprising since the doc was compiled on January 2007 and how much of the class could have changed?

Just take a look at

maindoc.pdf

Output of 'maindoc.tex'.

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maindoc.pdf and see the resulting pdf, it's awful, if you manage to compile the titlepage and have the same results as Peter Wilson please post the resulting pdf and the source. The compile errors i mentioned earlier are mainly the following;

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! Undefined control sequence.
\titleJT ->\begingroup \drop 
                             = 0.08\textheight \vspace *{\drop } \hspace *{0...
l.522 \titleJT
              
? 
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again> 
                   \protect 
l.522 \titleJT
              
? 
! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).
<to be read again> 
                   \protect 
l.522 \titleJT
              
? 
! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \drop 
                 
l.522 \titleJT
              
? 
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again> 
                   \vskip 
l.522 \titleJT
              
? 
! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).
<to be read again> 
                   \vskip 
l.522 \titleJT
              
? 
! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \vskip 2\drop 
                         
l.522 \titleJT
              
? 
! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).
<to be read again> 
                   }
l.522 \titleJT
              
? 
! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \drop 
                 
l.522 \titleJT
              
? 
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again> 
                   \vskip 
l.522 \titleJT
              
? 
! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).
<to be read again> 
                   \vskip 
l.522 \titleJT
              
? 
...

I am using texlive under Ubuntu hardy, pdflatex --version outputs;

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pdfTeX using libpoppler 3.141592-1.40.3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.6)
kpathsea version 3.5.6
Copyright 2007 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
Kpathsea is copyright 2007 Karl Berry and Olaf Weber.
There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX using libpoppler copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the pdfTeX using libpoppler source.
Primary author of pdfTeX using libpoppler: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
Kpathsea written by Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and others.

Compiled with libpng 1.2.15beta5; using libpng 1.2.15beta5
Compiled with zlib 1.2.3.3; using zlib 1.2.3.3
Compiled with libpoppler version 3.00

[mohbana]

Another post due to the 3 attachment limit. Any sort of help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi mohbana,

welcome to the LaTeX Community Forum!
You provided very good information. The solution is to create the length \drop before the title definitions:

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\newlength{\drop}

Stefan

[mohbana]

Hi mohbana,

welcome to the LaTeX Community Forum!
You provided very good information. The solution is to create the length \drop before the title definitions:

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\newlength{\drop}

Stefan

Thanks alot!