The titling package provides a number of facilities that
permit manipulation of the appearance of a \maketitle command, the
\thanks commands within it, and so on. The package also defines a
titlingpage environment, that offers something in between the
standard classes' titlepage option and the titlepage
environment, and is itself somewhat configurable.
The memoir class includes all the functionality of the titling package, while the KOMA-script classes have their own range of different titling styles.
Finally, the indefatigable Vincent Zoonekynd supplies examples of how to program alternative title styles. The web page is not useful to users unless they are willing to do their own LaTeX programming.
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