Hi Luke,

Another (quick) fix given what you already have, is to renew the maketitle
command to be empty:

#+LATEX_HEADER: \renewcommand{\maketitle}{}

Then after this you could put your #+begin_latex ... #+end_latex block to
generate the page.  Obviously, this works only for the current =org-mode=
file, and Tom's suggestion of creating your own latex class would be better
in the long run.

HTH,
Chris

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:

>
> On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Luke Crook wrote:
>
> I have successfully created a custom title page which I have used to
> replace the default version created by org-mode.
> Per http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html
> "11.2 Titles and Title Page Layout".
>
> However my title page contains the document title, date and version number.
>
> I would rather not have to create a separate "custom-title.tex"
> for each document that I create.
>
> Can I specify the Title etc. in org-mode in such a way that it can be
> included in the custom Title page?
>
> I have tried moving "custom-title.tex" into org-mode sandwiched
> between #+BEGIN_latex / #+END_latex commands, but this does not put
> the title on the first page.
>
> I have included a blank
>
> #+TITLE
>
> and
>
> #+OPTIONS: toc:nil
>
> but this still generates an empty page before my custom title page.
>
> Thanks,
> -Luke
>
>
>
> Aloha Luke,
>
> IIUC, you would like to have a custom title page that picks up the title,
> author, date, etc. from the Org-mode file.
>
> One way to do this is to keep the LaTeX variables for title, author, date,
> etc. in your new \maketitle, then put it in a new LaTeX class file that can
> be registered with Org-mode.
>
> I have this in my custom class file:
>
> \renewcommand\@maketitle{%
>   \newpage
>   \null
>   \begin{center}%
>   \let \footnote \thanks
>     {\usebox{\FIRM}}%
>     \vskip 3em%
>     {\LARGE \@title \par}%
>     \vskip 1.5em%
>     {\large
>       \lineskip .5em%
>       \begin{tabular}[t]{c}%
>         \@author
>       \end{tabular}\par}%
>     \vskip 1em%
>     {\large \@date}%
>   \end{center}%
>   \par
>   \vskip 1.5em}
>
>
>
> where \FIRM is a company logo and @title, @author, and @date correspond to Org-mode's #+TITLE:, etc.
>
> hth,
> Tom
>
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