I'm looking for suggestions on formatting the title page to my thesis.
This is supposed to be centered vertically on the page, with several
blocks of text for the title, the school and department, the degree and
my name... it is quite easy to do if I just put carriage returns
between lines, but I often see, in reading posts on this group, that I
shouldn't do this... more immediately, when I shift the document from
my home to school computers, these spaces get messed up. Is there an
appropriate way to do this with styles?

thanks,
mike

You can only handle the vertical centering using a section break - next page
at the end of your title page. Then format that page for vertical centering.
You can handle the spacing between paragraphs using space-before or
space-after formatting on your paragraphs.
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I'm looking for suggestions on formatting the title page to my thesis.
This is supposed to be centered vertically on the page, with several
blocks of text for the title, the school and department, the degree and
my name... it is quite easy to do if I just put carriage returns
between lines, but I often see, in reading posts on this group, that I
shouldn't do this... more immediately, when I shift the document from
my home to school computers, these spaces get messed up. Is there an
appropriate way to do this with styles?

thanks,
mike

Mike:

Most people do the "Title Page" of a long publication using Direct
Formatting, since the formatting in question happens only on one page and
affects only a few lines of text -- it's not usually worth making styles for
it.

So su "Blank lines" are fine the quick, and they work. For greater
stability, use a Table but hide the lines. Type your text in the cells,
then stretch the rows to get the lines in the correct place.

Just don't do this in the rest of your document, or you will never get the
thing to paginate properly and you will never get the page breaks stable.
And lots of other bad things will happen to :-)

Cheers


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I'm looking for suggestions on formatting the title page to my thesis.
This is supposed to be centered vertically on the page, with several
blocks of text for the title, the school and department, the degree and
my name... it is quite easy to do if I just put carriage returns
between lines, but I often see, in reading posts on this group, that I
shouldn't do this... more immediately, when I shift the document from
my home to school computers, these spaces get messed up. Is there an
appropriate way to do this with styles?

thanks,
mike


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I agree in principle, though I do sometimes use the Title style (adapted)
for the actual title, and I usually add Space Before or After to get the
spacing. What I *don't* recommend is using Center vertical alignment because
(a) this requires an otherwise unneeded section break, and (b) mathematical
centering will always look bad: for a single block of text, you need more
space below the text than above to keep it from looking like it's falling
off the page; alternatively, a typical title page for a consulting report or
academic paper may have a title just above center with a lot of subsidiary
text stretching to the bottom margin.

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Mike:

Most people do the "Title Page" of a long publication using Direct
Formatting, since the formatting in question happens only on one page and
affects only a few lines of text -- it's not usually worth making styles
for
it.

So su "Blank lines" are fine the quick, and they work. For greater
stability, use a Table but hide the lines. Type your text in the cells,
then stretch the rows to get the lines in the correct place.

Just don't do this in the rest of your document, or you will never get the
thing to paginate properly and you will never get the page breaks stable.
And lots of other bad things will happen to :-)

Cheers


On 17/11/05 8:37 PM, in article
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wrote:

I'm looking for suggestions on formatting the title page to my thesis.
This is supposed to be centered vertically on the page, with several
blocks of text for the title, the school and department, the degree and
my name... it is quite easy to do if I just put carriage returns
between lines, but I often see, in reading posts on this group, that I
shouldn't do this... more immediately, when I shift the document from
my home to school computers, these spaces get messed up. Is there an
appropriate way to do this with styles?

thanks,
mike


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