[texhax] typesetting, and "subtitle"

[tom sgouros]

BC Robinson <brobinso at math.usf.edu> wrote:

> 
> Thank you.  I didn't think of redefining \maketitle.  I'll look at
> that now.  For the sake of disclosure, this seemed to give me
> something like what I was wanting:
> 
> \title[Taking Sides]{Taking Sides \\
> {\large \textbf{Theory and Issues in Political and Moral Philosophy}}}

If you read my code carefully, you'll see that this is exactly the same
as my solution.  The only real difference is that I've provided a
\subtitle macro, which seemed to me more in the spirit of LaTeX's
functional markup.  I did this for a set of documents that were also to
be converted to html, so defining the look of the page wasn't as
important as defining the roles that each bit of text had to play.

 -tom


> > <bcr2925 at fsu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hello, smart TeXers.  I have a two part question, one for LaTeX, and another more generally for typsetting.
> >>
> >> What's the technical term for the second title -- the bit occupied by
> >> "or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb"?  I thought of
> >> second title, subtitle, epigram, none of them are quite it.  Other
> >> example (from the two books closest by me):
> >
> > "Subtitle" is what you want.
> >
> >>
> >> Second question.  How do I represent that part of the title in LaTeX?
> >> I tried \subtitle but of course that didn't work.  Should I just
> >> consider it a part of the title?  like:
> >
> > The regular LaTeX classes don't have \subtitle, and I don't think memoir
> > does, either.  I made one by redefining the \title command once, like
> > this:
> >
> > \def\iffull#1{\if#1\relax\else}
> > \gdef\@subtitle{}
> > \def\subtitle#1{\gdef\@subtitle{#1}}
> > \def\title#1{\gdef\@title{\sectfont\bfseries\LARGE#1\iffull\@subtitle\\%
> >      \mdseries\Large\@subtitle\fi}}
> >
> > \sectfont would have to be defined to use this verbatim.  But you get
> > the idea: you have to redefine the construction of your title page
> > somehow to include the \@subtitle.  In the above, I glommed it into the
> > \title definition, which wasn't really such a nice way to do it.  Better
> > would be to redefine \maketitle to do what you want, using \@subtitle.
> > Look in the class you're using for the definitions of \maketitle, and
> > you'll see what's going on.  Copy that into your document, or your own
> > style file, and change it a bit at a time until it looks like what you
> > want.
> >
> > -tom
> >
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