General ⇒ vspace before maketitle?

[daviddoria]

The maketitle command seems to put the title at the very top of the page. I tried to move it down with:

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\begin{document}

\vspace*{2in}
\title{Project 1}
\author{David Doria}
\maketitle

\newpage 

but it moves it to the top of the next page! Is there a maketitle param that makes it vertically centered? Or another way to make vspace manually like I tried to do here?

Thanks!

Dave

[localghost]

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,titlepage]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\title{Project 1}
\author{David Doria}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}
  \maketitle
  \Blinddocument
\newpage 

Best regards
Thorsten¹

[daviddoria]

ah great, to anyone else who sees this - the difference was the addition of the option [titlepage] in the \documentclass line

Thanks!

[localghost]

[...] to anyone else who sees this - the difference was the addition of the option [titlepage] in the \documentclass line [...]

Can be read in every basic LaTeX documentation such as lshort.