Palatino font and renewcommand title

Question

I have tried to make a document with the font called "Palatino" and with a renew defintion of the title. Here is what I tried:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage{mathpazo} %font palantino
%language
\usepackage{blindtext}

%Titlesection
\renewcommand{\title}{{\scshape \bfseries {\fontsize{50}{50}}}}

\begin{document}
\title{Hinter eines Baumes Rinde wohnt die Made mit dem Kinde. Sie ist Witwe, denn der Gatte, den sie hatte, fiel vom Blatte. Diente so auf diese Weise einer Ameise als Speise.}
\blinddocument
\end{document}

Questions and Trouble

My first question is: is the whole document know with the font Palatino? And my real struggle is, that the title don't do what I wanted it to do. And I am sure this is pretty basic and easy to solve, but I don't know how?

Thank you ver much in advance! Kind regards!

For things like this, KOMA-Script classes are much more easily to tweak (scrartcl for instance). But for this particular case, sigh, the size of the title font is fixed :( — Manuel, Jun 29 '15 at 17:46
@Henriette I am interested. Is this a real title you want to typeset, or just one single quote for ... let's say a flyer, or a wedding card or something like this? — Johannes_B, Jun 29 '15 at 17:51
@Johannes_B No it isn't the real title ;-) ... but I will make a template for my next hand in. And I had a little trouble with the title layout. Therfor I asked here. But the text in the title was just taken from a poem. So the text is just so I can see how it looks like :-) — Amelie B. Blackstone, Jun 29 '15 at 18:06
Figured that this is not the real text ;-). I hope it is not the real font size either. Btw: If you want to know more: How to customize my titlepage? and https://github.com/johannesbottcher/titlepages — Johannes_B, Jun 29 '15 at 18:12

egreg · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-29T17:52:48.363

There is no boldface small caps font available, so you won't get it. Also \fontsize{50}{50} is not really something one wants to do.

What you have to modify is not the \title command, but the \maketitle command. What \title does is just storing the title is a safe place for later retrieval, when the document header will be typeset.

Don't forget the sc option to mathpazo to have a “real” small caps font (thanks to Manuel for noticing).

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[sc]{mathpazo} %font Palatino
\usepackage{xpatch}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\makeatletter
\xpatchcmd{\@maketitle}
  {\@title}
  {\fontsize{40}{48}\scshape\@title}
  {}{}
\makeatother

\title{Hinter eines Baumes Rinde wohnt die Made mit dem Kinde}

\author{Heinz Erhardt}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\blinddocument
\end{document}

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ou could add the [sc] option to mathpazo. – Manuel Jun 29 '15 at 17:47 — Manuel, Jun 29 '15 at 17:47

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 29 '15 at 17:33

The titling package allows you to reformat the title etc. relatively painlessly. However, even using egreg's font size suggestion, your title took the entire first page when I tested, without even room for the date. So I've used a somewhat smaller size for purposes of demonstration. I'd still recommend a smaller size but you may have different ideas.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,german]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{mathpazo}
\usepackage{titling}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\pretitle{\begin{center}\fontsize{30}{36}\scshape}
\posttitle{\par\end{center}\vskip 0.5em}

\begin{document}
\title{Hinter eines Baumes Rinde wohnt die Made mit dem Kinde. Sie ist Witwe, denn der Gatte, den sie hatte, fiel vom Blatte. Diente so auf diese Weise einer Ameise als Speise.}
\maketitle
\blinddocument
\end{document}

large title

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 29 '15 at 17:11

Quick and dirty:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage{mathpazo}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\title{\fontsize{40}{45}\scshape\bfseries\noindent
  Hinter eines Baumes Rinde wohnt die Made mit dem Kinde. Sie ist
  Witwe, denn der Gatte, den sie hatte, fiel vom Blatte. Diente so auf diese
  Weise einer Ameise als Speise.\endgraf}
\author{John Doe}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\blinddocument
\end{document}

A variant with the Palatino clon from the TeX Gyre project (with \usepackage{tgpagella}:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage{mathpazo}
\usepackage{tgpagella}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\title{\fontsize{40}{45}\scshape\bfseries\noindent
  Hinter eines Baumes Rinde wohnt die Made mit dem Kinde. Sie ist
  Witwe, denn der Gatte, den sie hatte, fiel vom Blatte. Diente so auf diese
  Weise einer Ameise als Speise.\endgraf}
\author{John Doe}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\blinddocument
\end{document}

Remarks:

\fontsize{50}{50} is much too large for "normal" titles. Also the \baselineskip (the second argument) is too small. The example uses \fontsize{40}{45}, still way too large.
\fontsize needs \selectfont, which is implicitly done by \scshape or \bfseries.
German text contains umlauts, OT1 should not be used. The example uses \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}.
The \baselineskip is used at the end of the paragraph, therefore the paragraph should be ended, when \fontsize is still active. Therefore \endgraf is added. \endgraf is the harmless version of \par and can be used in non-\long arguments, where \par would cause an error.
The cleaner way is to redefine \maketitle to add the formatting there. \title is intended for the title string only, see the answer of egreg.

Palatino font and renewcommand title

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