LyX ⇒ Undesired page break on title page

[Pampateroonie]

Sorry to piggyback onto the thread, but I'm having a similar problem. I'm also a total noob at Latex/Lyx, so please bear with me. I'm trying to make a title page which has a small graphic at top, then the institution name (standard text), then the title, and then an image which should be at the center of the page. Under the image comes a bit more standard text, centered, and at the bottom standard text at the right.

For some reason everything but the top graphic and the first text is kicked on to page 2. I need it to be all on page 1!! Please....

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%% LyX 2.0.4 created this file.  For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,tmargin=3cm,bmargin=3cm,lmargin=2.5cm,rmargin=2.5cm}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\makeatletter

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
%% A simple dot to overcome graphicx limitations
\newcommand{\lyxdot}{.}


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% User specified LaTeX commands.
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{pslatex}
\usepackage{microtype}
\date{}

\makeatother

\usepackage{babel}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}

\begin{flushright}
\begin{figure}[!th]
\raggedleft{}\includegraphics{/home/frank/Documents/small_logo}
\end{figure}

\par\end{flushright}

\begin{center}
HOCHSCHULE FÜR ANGEWANDTE WISSENSCHAFTEN DEPARTEMENT LIFE
SCIENCES UND FACILITY MANAGEMENT INSTITUT UMWELT UND NATÜRLICHE RESSOURCEN
\par\end{center}


\title{Bloob: Micro Boobies for Schmoo Deduction in Arid Zones}

\maketitle
\begin{figure}[!h]
\centering{}\includegraphics{pasted1}
\end{figure}



\author{Yahoo Serious }


\author{Tutorial 2 }


\author{Studienrichtung: Umweltingenieurwesen }


\author{Abgabetermin: Freitag, 14. September 2012, 12.00 Uhr}

\bigskip{}


Fachkorrektoren: 

Dr. Mock, Schmockdibock, Lalaland 

Fritz Frosch, Seedamm, Vaudeville

\end{titlepage}

[kaiserkarl13]

Easiest hack here is to change \maketitle to:

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\let\original_newpage\newpage
\let\newpage\relax
\maketitle
\let\newpage\original_newpage

That should (?) solve your problem.

For how I arrived at this, try adding \show\maketitle before your \maketitle command; it contains a \newpage in front of it, hence the page break.

[Pampateroonie]

Thanks! That (sortof) works. Underscores seem to make a mess, I just removed them. The next problem is that this works fine when I compile from Texmaker (using it to edit source - Lyx does not seem to like me editing source directly - or am I doing it wrong??) - but when I import the .tex file into lyx, it reformats that part like this:

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\maketitle
\let\originalnewpage\newpage \let\newpage\relax \let\newpage\originalnewpage

which has Lyx produce the same page-breaky pdf as before. Ugh?



Thanks,

[scottkosty]

Thanks! That (sortof) works. Underscores seem to make a mess, I just removed them. The next problem is that this works fine when I compile from Texmaker (using it to edit source - Lyx does not seem to like me editing source directly - or am I doing it wrong??) - but when I import the .tex file into lyx, it reformats that part like this:

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\maketitle
\let\originalnewpage\newpage \let\newpage\relax \let\newpage\originalnewpage

which has Lyx produce the same page-breaky pdf as before. Ugh?



Thanks,

You're probably not doing anything wrong. LyX has it's own format so whenever it imports a .tex file it converts it to its format. There are a lot of problems with this conversion because of the complexity of TeX. If you would like, you can file a bug report specifying the tex2lyx component here: http://www.lyx.org/trac

[kaiserkarl13]

Yes, yes, I'm stupid---you can't use underscores in command names....

The example I wrote myself used \let\newpage\oldpage. Sorry!

[Pampateroonie]

I'm still stumped. There must be a way to do something as seemingly simple as preventing a pagebreak before a \title. In Lyx. I Simply don't have the time right now to do the whole thing the down and dirty way.

Mine can't be the only institution that wants its bloody logo hanging over the title of the paper. On the same page...

[Pampateroonie]

Fixed it! This is what i did:

Top graphic I did by --> insert graphic. No Float.

Made it a \title environment

Made the real title just large standard text


added horizontal space to the left of title to make it align right.


that's it! Thanks to the guy on reddit who figured this out..

[bloomy]

I use Lyx. I encountered the same problem. I put a graphic before the title and inserted a page break. So I insert the graphic and the title name and mark them as title.
Then in between the graphic and title name I added TeX code \\[1cm]

So in the source it looks like
\title{\noindent \includegraphics[scale=0.7]{\string"images/logo\string".png}\\[1cm]My Title }

I hope that helps.

Cheers
Steve