On Tuesday 15 May 2007 00:30:18 Steve Litt wrote: > I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but in my opinion every book's > front matter is a one-off affair and therefore the proper procedure is to > fine tune it with ERT, not to find (or create) a document class conforms to > your front matter specs. IIRC I used \leftskip and \rightskip to control > the margins in the frontmatter. I didn't even use \title or \author -- I > just made environments to properly center and size text for title and > author, and put the stuff in, separated of course by the proper \vskip > commands.
I suggest a mixed approach using the examples and advices given in http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=titlepage/titlepage -- José Abílio