General ⇒ \title, \author don't get displayed

[carol]

Hi,
I have defined \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} and I use a set of packages. Before \begin{document}, I put title{myTitle} and \author{Me} but don't get displayed. I get neither warning nor error message that they can't be displayed. Does anyone know why they don't get displayed and what prevents?

Thanks

Carol

[frabjous]

Right after \begin{document}, did you include:
\maketitle

That's the command that actually prints the title.

[carol]

No I hadn't. I added and without adding \date, it prints the date of today. how to remove?

Moreover, Is there any predefined command for the authors' contact information (address, email), as appear on the papers?

Many thanks

Right after \begin{document}, did you include:
\maketitle

That's the command that actually prints the title.

[frabjous]

If you want remove the date, just add a blank \date{} near where you put \author{Me} and \title{MyTitle}.

As far as I know there's nowhere by default to put contact info in the article document class, but someone may know better. You can add stuff like that into \author if you want, e.g.:

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\author{Me \\ Institution or Organization \\ Address \\ \texttt{myemail@mydomain.com}}

Or you can just add it at the end as normal text. I could be wrong, however.