Designing template

Question

This is an important question for me and any help would be great.

I want to design my regular assignments/submissions in LaTeX. I previously typed them in MS-Word which gave me enough options to customise the look and feel of the document. But LaTeX doesn't give me complete options as such to create text boxes, coloured headers, etc. I don't want to use the default black and white option as its getting too simple. I don't want to use MS-Word for a lot many reasons (which you can guess).

For example, I want to get a document class like wiley-article. But many of the options therein are useless for me and I can't get rid of them (removing them throws errors).

Can you suggest me a way how to tweak such documents or make a new one?

Thanks a lot in advance. :)

Answer 1

You can look at the titling package, which is done to customise the \maketitle command. It defines one length: \droptitle for the positioning of the title on the page, six commands: \pretitle, \posttitle, \preauthor, \postauthor, \predate, \postdate, and four hooks: \maketitlehooka, … , \maketitlehookd for additional elements to \maketitle.

From the documentation:

The \maketitle command as defined by the titling package is essentially

\renewcommand{\maketitle}{%

\vspace*{\droptitle}

\maketitlehooka

{\pretitle \title \posttitle}

\maketitlehookb

{\preauthor \author \postauthor}

\maketitlehookc

{\predate \date \postdate}

\maketitlehookd

}