example of a good titlepage

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With the titlepage environment you get to choose exactly the layout you want

\begin{titlepage}
\vspace*{5cm}
\begin{center}
\Large
My title here\\
\vspace{2cm}
\large
I, the author\\
\vspace{2cm}
\today\\
\end{center}
\vspace{2cm}

\begin{abstract}
...
\end{abstract}
Rest of page...
\end{titlepage}

Cheers,

Sebastian

example of a good titlepage

> I'm trying to make a good titlepage and want to include \title, \abstract
> \author \date \thanks \keywords \note. I have tried the following
> \begin{titlepage}
>     \title{\bf xxx}
>     \author{xxx}
>     \date{\today}
>     \thanks{xxx}
> \end{titlepage}
> \maketitle
>
> but is ending up with a empty first page and problems

That blank page is the title page. If you want the title to be on the title page you should put \maketitle in the the titlepage environment. The same is mostly true of the abstract, but in some classes best to start with a copy of your class's definition, removing anything that would start a new page.

Dan Luecking