3.4.2 @titlefont, @center, and @sp

You can use the @titlefont, @sp, and @center commands to create a title page for a printed document. (This is the first of the two methods for creating a title page in Texinfo.)

Use the @titlefont command to select a large font suitable for the title itself. You can use @titlefont more than once if you have an especially long title.

For HTML output, each @titlefont command produces an <h1> heading, but the HTML document <title> is not affected. For that, you must put an @settitle command before the @titlefont command (see settitle).

For example:

     @titlefont{Texinfo}

Use the @center command at the beginning of a line to center the remaining text on that line. Thus,

     @center @titlefont{Texinfo}

centers the title, which in this example is “Texinfo” printed in the title font.

Use the @sp command to insert vertical space. For example:

     @sp 2

This inserts two blank lines on the printed page. (See @sp, for more information about the @sp command.)

A template for this method looks like this:

     @titlepage
     @sp 10
     @center @titlefont{name-of-manual-when-printed}
     @sp 2
     @center subtitle-if-any
     @sp 2
     @center author
     ...
     @end titlepage

The spacing of the example fits an 8.5 by 11 inch manual.

You can in fact use these commands anywhere, not just on a title page, but since they are not logical markup commands, we don't recommend them.