Designing a title page

We can quickly create a good-looking title page using \maketitle, as we did in Chapter 2, Formatting Text and Creating Macros. Document classes usually offer this command to generate a suitable pre-formatted title page. Alternatively, you could use a titlepage environment to design its layout freely. So, let's design a nice title page for our book of equations.

In Chapter 2, Formatting Text and Creating Macros, we have already used some formatting commands, such as \centering, and font size and shape commands, such as \Huge and \bfseries, to format a title. We will do it similarly within a titlepage environment:

1. Create a file, title.tex, with the following content:

   \begin{titlepage}
   \raggedleft
   {\Large The Author\\[1in]}
   {\large The Big Book of\\}
   {\Huge\scshape Equations\\[.2in]}
   {\large Packed with hundreds of examples and solutions\\}
   \vfill
   {\itshape 2011, Publishing company}
   \end{titlepage}

2. Add this line right after \frontmatter:

   \include...