General ⇒ The word 'immediate' appeared below title

[Hami]

Why is there the word immediate after my title after I run with the command \maketitle? Without it the word does not appear. How do I get rid of this? Below are the codes I used in my document. Thanks!

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{bm}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[affil-it]{authblk}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{authblk}
\usepackage{gensymb}
\usepackage{caption} 
\captionsetup[table]{skip=10pt} 

\title{Progress Report (Six Months)}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\end{document}

[Johannes_B]

The \maketitle command expects an author, if none is given a warning appears and the box is left empty. Strangely, when using package authblk the author-field gets the replacement of immediate.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{authblk}
\title{the title}
%\author{no author given}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}}

You might want to use the titlepage-environment without using maketitle.

[Hami]

Ah! Silly me! Thanks Johannes_B.

[Johannes_B]

Here an alternativ using titlepage to give you a basic idea.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{authblk}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\title{the title}
%\author{no author given}
\begin{document}
%\maketitle
\begin{titlepage}
	\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
	\hbox{}\vspace{2cm}
	\begin{center}\Huge Progress Report\end{center}
	\begin{center}\today\end{center}
	\vfill
	\begin{tabular}{l}
	STUDENT\\ \midrule	
	Hamid\\
	PhD\\\addlinespace
	TITLE OF RESEARCH\\\midrule
	Pidgeons and their love for statues\\
\end{tabular}
\end{titlepage}
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Hami,

welcome to the forum!

I'm curious, is it a requirement to write those section headings like "STUDENT DETAIL" and "ENROLMENT DETAIL" completely in capital letters and underline them? It just reminds me on the time of typewriter machines, when we did not have other possibilities of emphasizing than writing all caps and underlining. Today we could make the letters bold (or italic) or have a bigger font size. Also, small caps (such as by \textsc{...}) would be better than all caps, or a bit spaced out. Just thoughts on it.

Best regards,

Stefan