Which command can I use to access the title defined by \title{}

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From the existence of the command \maketitle I believe the title is kept somewhere. So how can I have access to it by a command (for example I want to use it somewhere else). Finding it could be hard because the source code of article isn’t open to public.

You need to include more details, including documentclass, packages etc, \maketitle's definition is in the public domain within source code. In fact there are questions on here that find and change \maketitle for the article class so I am not sure what your question is? — JamesT, Oct 05 '22 at 12:19
Just add \newcommand{\thisdocumenttitle}{The real title goes here} and do \title{\thisdocumenttitle} for typesetting it with \maketitle. You have \thisdocumenttitle available whenever you want. — egreg, Oct 05 '22 at 12:35
Similar questions has been asked in the past. For example: https://stackoverflow.com/q/2522173 — Luis Turcio, Oct 05 '22 at 12:42

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 05 '22 at 12:43

I guess you're submitting a paper to some journal that doesn't disclose the code of the document class they'll use to eventually typeset the paper and just provides a generic template.

The problem you have is simple to solve.

\documentclass{generic-publisher-class}
%%% Whatever you need in the preamble
\usepackage{amsmath}
%[...]
%%%
%%% add this for remembering the title
\newcommand{\thisdocumenttitle}{What's the name of this paper?}
\begin{document}
\author{A. Uthor}
\title{\thisdocumenttitle}
\maketitle
This paper is entitled ``\thisdocumenttitle'' and is the 
sequel to another paper of mine~\cite{mypreviouspaper}.
\end{document}

Which command can I use to access the title defined by \title{}

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