@Quentin Showing the frame of the text block. My title with your method is faulty and sticks into the margin. When stuff like that happens, something's dodgy.

i'd be inclined to "tie" Walter~Wombat to avoid the ungraceful splitting of a proper name.

@barbarabeeton Very good point, edited.

uh, please take a look at what you've got there -- two code instances of the title, but the title only appears once. i'm confused.

@barbarabeeton I just noticed now that the screenshot was absolutely not matching the code. I fixed that. But the answer isn't very good, i wonder if it would be better to delete it. Egreg has posted an answer as well.

@barbarabeeton Sometimes i wonder if i am a complete mental case. Please have a look at that: github.com/johannesbottcher/titlepageExamples/blob/master/… No need to tie the name there.

the github example has an explicit \\ break. the tie is an alternative that (usually) does the "right thing" if the line width is changed. the reason i use the tie is so that the tied words are kept together when the heading string is also sent to the toc, where the line length, font size, etc., are almost certain to be different.

egreg's answer has a \Huge font; yours is only \huge. so in effect, the line width is different.

Sigh, i clicked the wrong button. A different line width is a good point, i will change the eample on github.

oh, no worries. (being in a chat room rather than on the main page allows me to opportunity to assure you, in semi-private, that you are not a complete mental case. however, all of us, i think, are partial mental cases -- usually harmless.)

@barbarabeeton :-)

@barbarabeeton Do you like my naming scheme?

it took me quite a few years, with plain tex, to realize that subtle is usually better. it's a whole new learning experience with latex, and it keeps sliding out from under me.

latextemplates.com/cat/title-pages The templates have attributes like stylish or formal or multi-purpose. That is insane i think.

@Johannes_B -- do you mean the name of the file, "quail"? you do know the "other" meaning of that in english, when it's a verb ...

@barbarabeeton I had to look it up. Something like being bit scared, right?

@barbarabeeton Almost all examples have animal names. :-)

@Johannes_B -- and the "formal" one has the institution material too close to the authors. problem is caused by the order in which \baselineskipis assigned for the new font size.

@Johannes_B -- yup, that's it.

@Johannes_B -- i like that convention. how about something like "emmet emu"? or "florence flamingo"? (one of my former co-workers used to write that last as "flaming o". as i said, i think we're all a bit bonkers.)

@barbarabeeton No spaces in fileNames :-)

@barbarabeeton Ubuntu is doing this for its releases.

I somehow settled for Walter Wombat and Carl Capybara, but i actually have a list to pick from for examples :-)

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Dixie Dancing ducks
Polka loving Platypus
pogo penguin
crazy capybara
disco dogs
walzing wombat
Lambada leguan
limbo lion
samba snake
salsa squirrel
Rock and Roll Racoon
Rumba Rhinoceros
busy Bee
Wobbling Walrus
fishing flamingo

@barbarabeeton I could fix a \medbreak in there. Or a \bigbreak. Or a \vfill.

@Johannes_B -- true, but i was thinking also of author names in examples. i like your list. however, "raccoon" has two "c"s. and i think of pogo as a possum -- strong association with a semi-political cartoon from kinder, gentler times (although there was a "bad actor" then too, joe mccarthy who caused all kinds of uproar calling people "communists" and getting them blacklisted. he got what he deserved in the end -- formal censure).

@barbarabeeton Thanks, fixed the c. Pogo, the dance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_(dance)

@Johannes_B -- i think if the baseline skip to the first line of the institution is the same as the baseline distance between authors, that would be enough. just not less distance. remember, i said "subtle". "big" would certainly be too much; not sure about "med".

@Johannes_B -- here's "my" pogo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_(comic_strip)

@barbarabeeton I like that comic on the right for earth day. We are doing no good for our earth.

@barbarabeeton Did you notice, that the OF of the title is a bit closer to the last line of the title?

@Johannes_B -- oops! spaced through that. can probably be fixed just by adding \par at the end of the argument.

@barbarabeeton There is a \\[.3\baselineskip] in there.

@Johannes_B -- oh. well, i've totally ignored the code, and just been guessing how something might be put together. clearly the authors of the templates are more inventive than i am. (although peter wilson ought to know better.)

@barbarabeeton I am just browsing through texdoc titlepages to figure out what the original code is.

pdfpage 38, document page 34 \titleGP

Wow, GP, i should have figured that out sooner.

I opened the template on Overleaf and substituted the title with CONUNDRUMS AND PUZZLES. The output looks odd and different from the example output. Is that a example bug in the pdf?

@barbarabeeton I got a letter from TUG at the beginning of the year, inside a post card from Peter. twitter.com/templateGundar/status/691207929593249792

Thinking about it, how did they know it was me?

I don't know why i created the following. Looking at it now makes me feel weird. Should i delete it? github.com/johannesbottcher/titlepageExamples/blob/master/…