Document Titles

In LaTeX

The standard LaTeX document classes define a \maketitle command, along with \title, \author, and \date commands, which can be used to produce a relatively automatic title block.

\documentclass{article}
  \title{How to do this in Context}
  \author{The author}
  \date{July 26, 2005}
\begin{document}
  \maketitle
\end{document}

The title, author, and date defined by these commands is also used to create the PDF authoring information, if appropriate packages are used. (I'm not sure of the details of this; will look them up later. --Brooks)

In ConTeXt: A simple solution

The ConTeXt philosophy is for the author to specify the formatting, rather than selecting from existing formats. A simple solution is thus to write the title block directly; the following version is a close duplicate of the version produced by the \maketitle command in LaTeX's startard article class.

\starttext
\startalignment[center]
  \blank[2*big]
    {\tfd How to do this in Context}
  \blank[3*medium]
    {\tfa The author}
  \blank[2*medium]
    {\tfa July 26, 2005}
  \blank[3*medium]
\stopalignment

Then, the actual text of the document starts here.  We'll put in enough text to
fill out the line and start to make a paragraph.
\stoptext

In ConTeXt: A more flexible solution

The author of this entry is looking for a solution for the described problem.

(See: How to?)