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I am using the amsbook documentclass (latest version from CTAN), and would like to use \dedicatory for a dedication. However, the placement of the dedication is odd: it is placed just below the authors' address, without hardly any space.

Is that normal for a dedication? How to best change this behaviour? (I am aware that memo-l.cls puts the dedication in a different spot.)

Here is a minimal working example:

\documentclass{amsbook}
\dedicatory{foo bar}
\begin{document}
\title{foo}
\author{Author One}
\email{aasjdfiaejifnieaf@sodifjaiejfiasjfidh.com}
\maketitle
\end{document}

The dedication "foo bar" is oddly close to the email address.

Benedikt Ahrens
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Formatting of the dedication in an amsbook depends on the particular book series intended. memo-l.cls is a bit of a hybrid, and the \dedicatory command used there is not supported for any other series.

The AMS author handbook for monographs says this (on p.12) about the dedication:

4.5. Dedication. The dedication for a monograph is set on a separate page. The template provided in the author package includes instructions for formatting this page.

The template file for the generic amsbook is chapter-template.tex and is included in all monograph author packages. In this file, the manner of coding a dedication is presented thus:

...
\maketitle

%    Dedication.  If the dedication is longer than a line or two,
%    remove the centering instructions and the line break.
%\cleardoublepage
%\thispagestyle{empty}
%    If this book uses the documentclass stml-l or mmono-s, change
%    13.5pc to 10.5pc.
%\vspace*{13.5pc}
%\begin{center}
%  Dedication text (use \[2pt] for line break if necessary)
%\end{center}
%\cleardoublepage

Not as convenient, perhaps, as a single command like \dedicatory, but it allows for much greater flexibility. (And some quite elegant dedication pages have been produced with this outline.)

barbara beeton
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