LaTeX Beginners Guide

Time for action – centering a title

We shall create a nice looking title for our document. It should contain the title, the author, and the date. All those lines have to be centered.

1. Write a document containing this code:

   \documentclass{article}
   \pagestyle{empty}
   \begin{document}
   {\centering
       \huge\bfseries Centered text \\
       \Large\normalfont written by me \\
       \normalsize\today
   
   }
   \end{document}

2. Typeset to see the output:
   

What just happened?

Because only the title should be centered, we opened a group to limit the centering. Through the declaration \centering , we made the remaining text of this group horizontally aligned to the center. We inserted a paragraph ...