General ⇒ Using author's name multiple times

[napbaioneta]

Hi,

My question is the following:
is there a way(other than \maketitle to show the content of \author or \title?

[josephwright]

The standard classes save the authors as \@author and the title as \@title. These can be used before \maketitle, but are cleared by it (for historical reasons). Depending on what you want to do, you may need to redefine \author and \title to save the information somewhere that won't get cleared.

[cgnieder]

Hi napbaioneta,

Welcome to the LaTeX community.

Here is an example of how a redefinition could look like:

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\documentclass{article}

\makeatletter
\def\author#1{\gdef\@author{#1}\gdef\showauthor{#1}}
\makeatother

\title{Some title}
\author{napbaioneta}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

Author is \showauthor

\end{document}

Regards

[napbaioneta]

thank you, that worked just as I wanted it to work