Directory macros/latex/contrib/titling
README
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The TITLING package
The titling package provides controls over the typesetting of the
\maketitle and \thanks commands, makes the \title, \author and \date
information permanently available, and allows multiple titles in
a single document.
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Change History
Version 2.1f (2026/10/12)
- Tag documentation
- New maintainer (LaTeX Project)
Version 2.1e (2009/12/28)
- Defaults adjusted to produce identical results to the
standard classes in non-titlepage mode.
Version 2.1d (2009/09/04)
- New maintainer (Will Robertson)
Changes in version 2.1c (2004/09/26)
- No technical change, deleted mention of non-existing command
Changes (version 2.1b 2004/05/10)
- Changed license from LPPL v1.0 to v1.3
Changes in version 2.1a (2002/02/19)
- No technical change, extra examples in the documentation.
Changes in version 2.1 (2001/03/23)
- Support for new titling elements to be printed by \maketitle
- Multiple titles on one document
- Additional controls for layout of the thanks marks and text.
- A method for centering a titlepage title on the physical page
Changes in version 2.0 (2001/02/24)
- Added controls for typesetting the \thanks command
- Added \thanksmark for reusing thanks marks
- Added a titlingpage environment as a mix of the titlepage class
option and the titlepage environment.
- Improved the user interface for the titling controls. Unfortunately
this makes version 2.0 incompatible with version 1.0.
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Author: Peter Wilson (Herries Press)
Maintainer: LaTeX Project
Copyright 2000--2004 Peter R. Wilson
Copyright 2009 Will Robertson
Copyright 2026--present LaTeX Project
This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either
version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any
later version: <https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt>
This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".
The Current Maintainer of this work is the LaTeX Project.
This work consists of the files:
README (this file)
titling.dtx
titling.ins
and the derived files:
titling.sty
The distribution consists of the following files:
README (this file)
titling.dtx
titling.ins
titling.pdf (user manual)
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To install the package:
- run: latex titling.ins (which will generate titling.sty)
- Move titling.sty to a location where LaTeX will find it.
(typically in a local texmf tree at tex/latex/***) and refresh the
file database. See the FAQ on CTAN at help/uk-tex-faq or
https://texfaq.org/ for more information on this.
To process the user manual:
- run: lualatex titling.dtx
- For an index, run: makeindex -s gind.ist titling
- run: lualatex titling.dtx
- Print titling.pdf for a hardcopy of the user manual
Download the contents of this package in one zip archive (301.0k).
Titling – Control over the typesetting of the \maketitle command
The titling package provides control over the typesetting of the \maketitle command and \thanks commands, and makes the \title, \author and \date information permanently available. Multiple titles are allowed in a single document. New titling elements can be added and a titlepage title can be centered on a physical page.
| Package | Titling |
| Bug tracker | |
| Repository | |
| Version | 2.1f 2026-10-12 |
| Licenses | The LaTeX Project Public License 1.3c |
| Copyright | 2000–2004 Peter R. Wilson |
| Maintainer | The LaTeX Project Team Will Robertson Peter R. Wilson (inactive) |
| Contained in | TeX Live as titling MiKTeX as titling |
| Topics | Tagged PDF – incompatible Title page |