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