Dedication page in article class

Question

Alignment of dedication page in the document class article.

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} 
\usepackage[paper=a4paper,left=30mm,right=20mm,top=25mm,bottom=30mm]{geometry}
    \newenvironment{dedication}
        {\vspace{6ex}\begin{quotation}\begin{center}\begin{em}}
        {\par\end{em}\end{center}\end{quotation}}
\begin{document}
\begin{dedication}
\hspace{4cm}
\vspace*{9cm}{Dedicated to google and wikipedia.}
\end{dedication}
\end{document}

The alignment is moving horizontally but not vertical. Am i missing something here?

Using Texmaker in Linux.

@rnish Have you considered to accept any answer here? I thin egrep's answer is very good. — Léo Léopold Hertz 준영, Nov 23 '16 at 21:38

egreg · Answer 1 · 2016-11-23T21:51:50.963

27

Probably a different approach is better. Choose yourself the proportion of white space at the top and the bottom (here it's 1:3).

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[paper=a4paper,left=30mm,right=20mm,top=25mm,bottom=30mm]{geometry}

\newenvironment{dedication}
  {\clearpage           % we want a new page
   \thispagestyle{empty}% no header and footer
   \vspace*{\stretch{1}}% some space at the top 
   \itshape             % the text is in italics
   \raggedleft          % flush to the right margin
  }
  {\par % end the paragraph
   \vspace{\stretch{3}} % space at bottom is three times that at the top
   \clearpage           % finish off the page
  }

\begin{document}
\begin{dedication}
Dedicated to google and wikipedia  
\end{dedication}
\end{document}

For producing the image below, I added the showframe option to geometry.

edited Nov 23 '16 at 21:51

answered Mar 16 '13 at 23:52

egreg

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I get such an output http://pasteboard.co/1xn5gUam9.png Is that a purpose to have it the bottom? Is it a standard? I think the much white space is a Honourable space. - - Please, add an output to your answer. – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Nov 23 '16 at 21:34
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@Masi I added it (with showframe to clearly mark the page boundaries). – egreg Nov 23 '16 at 21:52
Why is your output that way but my output wrong? - - Is this necessary \usepackage[paper=a4paper,left=30mm,right=20mm,top=25mm,bottom=30mm]{geometry}? – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Nov 23 '16 at 22:13
@Masi Not at all; those were the settings of the OP. – egreg Nov 23 '16 at 22:16
But how can you include the dedication at such location? Why is my location so different? - - Maybe some complication. Any workaround? – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Nov 23 '16 at 22:40
@Masi Since my code works and yours doesn't, how can I think of a workaround? Do you believe I can read your mind? – egreg Nov 24 '16 at 07:05

Matthias Braun · Answer 2 · 2015-06-14T14:37:58.903

6

As this is the first Google result for "latex dedication", I'd like to contribute a simpler way for dedications in Latex, which I adapted from here:

\newpage \vspace*{8cm}
% Sets a PDF bookmark for the dedication
\pdfbookmark{Dedication}{dedication}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{center}
  \Large \emph{Dedicated to google and wikipedia}
\end{center}

edited Jun 14 '15 at 14:37

answered Jun 14 '15 at 14:14

Matthias Braun

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