Condense Latex Title

Question

I wish for my Latex Title to be condensed so that it takes up less room on the page.

Here is my current source:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx,ctable,booktabs}

% ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                            
% Commands                                                                                                                                                                  
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                            
\newcommand{\justif}[2]{&{#1}&\text{#2}}
\newcommand{\N}{\mathbb{N}}
\newcommand{\Z}{\mathbb{Z}}
\newcommand{\R}{\mathbb{R}}
\begin{document}
% --------------------------------------------------------------                                                                                                            
% Start here                                                                                                                                                                
% --------------------------------------------------------------                                                                                                            
\title{This is a title that need not take up half the page! (How do I fix this?)}%replace X with the appropriate number                                                     

 %if necessary, replace with your course title                                                                                                                              
\maketitle
This is the rest of my document...
\end{document}

How do I get the title to take up less space?

If you need more information let me know. Thanks in advance!

Which document class do you use, and which options do you use for the class? — Gonzalo Medina, Aug 28 '13 at 01:50
Related How to fit the title into a single line? and Linked Q — texenthusiast, Aug 28 '13 at 02:09

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 28 '13 at 01:56

You can redefine \@maketitle as defined in article.cls and introduce some changes in skips, fonts, and any other elemnts you wish, to reduce the spacing reserved for the title. In the following example code I show one possible modification (original code is marked %ORIGINAL and lines changed, with %NEW); the showframe package was used to produce a frame to serve as a visual guideline:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{showframe}

\makeatletter
\def\@maketitle{%
  \newpage
  %\null%ORIGINAL
  %\vskip 2em%ORIGINAL
  \begin{center}%
  \let \footnote \thanks
    {\Large\@title \par}%ORIGINAL: \LARGE
    \vskip 0.3em%NEW
    %\vskip 1.5em%ORIGINAL
    {\large
      \lineskip .5em%
      \begin{tabular}[t]{c}%
        \@author
      \end{tabular}\par}%
    \vskip 0.3em%NEW
    %\vskip 1em%ORIGINAL
    {\large \@date}%
  \end{center}%
  \par
  \vskip 0.5em%ORIGINAL
  %\vskip 1.5em%ORIGINAL
}
\makeatother
\title{This is a title that does not take up half the page! (You can introduce further modifications)}

\begin{document}

\maketitle
This is the rest of my document...

\end{document}

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Another option is to not use \maketitleat all, and design your title from scratch according to your needed specifications.

What are the other options where you have comments that say original? Where can I find this information out? — CodeKingPlusPlus, Aug 28 '13 at 02:21
@CodeKingPlusPlus I don't understand your first question; please explain in more detail. You can find the original definition in article.cls. Run kpsewhich article.cls in a terminal to see the path to this file in your system; typically .../tex/latex/base/article.cls (the dots represent part of the path that might vary depending on your LaTeX installation/OS). — Gonzalo Medina, Aug 28 '13 at 02:24
For example you have: {\Large\@title \par}%ORIGINAL: \LARGE What other options can I use besides \Large? — CodeKingPlusPlus, Aug 28 '13 at 02:33
@CodeKingPlusPlus any other font size switch: \normalsize, \small, \footnotesize,... or even something like\fontsize{7}{8.4}\selectfont, and you could also use \itshape, \bfseries ao any other font modification required. — Gonzalo Medina, Aug 28 '13 at 02:46

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 28 '13 at 08:37

Use the titling package:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage[margin=1in,showframe]{geometry}

\usepackage{titling}

\pretitle{\begin{center}\large}
\posttitle{\end{center}}
\preauthor{\begin{center}\normalsize}
\postauthor{\end{center}}
\predate{\begin{center}\footnotesize}
\postdate{\end{center}}
\setlength{\droptitle}{-40pt}

\begin{document}

\title{This is a title that need not take up half the page!
       (How do I fix this?)}
\author{A. U. Thor}

\maketitle

This is the rest of my document...

\end{document}

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Condense Latex Title

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