Document Classes ⇒ memoir | Re-order Title and Author

[niles]

Hi

Please see this MWE:

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{memoir}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath, amsthm, amssymb}

\begin{document}
\begin{titlingpage}

\author{Author name}
\date{November, 2018}
\title{Title}

\preauthor{\begin{flushleft}}
\postauthor{\end{flushleft}}
\pretitle{\begin{flushleft}} \posttitle{\end{flushleft}}
\predate{\begin{flushleft}asd, }\postdate{\end{flushleft}}
\maketitle

\end{titlingpage}
\end{document}

I wish that the author name comes first, then the title and finally the date. However, I can't get this combination -- the title always comes before the author name. What can I do?

Cheers,
Niles.

[localghost]

Within the titlingpage environment you can create an arbitrary title without the \maketitle command. For some inspiration take a look at the document »Some Examples of Title Pages«. If you want to keep the simple layout of the \maketitle command, dig into the code of the memoir class and redefine this command according to your ideas in the preamble of your document. The important point is to redefine the helper macro \@maketitle as shown below.

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@maketitle}{%
  \newpage
  \null
  \vskip 2em%
  \vspace*{\droptitle}
  \maketitlehooka
  {\@bspreauthor \@author \@bspostauthor}
  \maketitlehookb
  {\@bspretitle \@title \@bsposttitle}
  \maketitlehookc
  {\@bspredate \@date \@bspostdate}
  \maketitlehookd
  \par
  \vskip 1.5em
}
\makeatother

Thorsten