Formatting Title Page
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The title page is the only page where you won’t need to use styles and can, indeed should, do everything manually. This is because the title page is unique. Using styles would only create extra work. The only exception would be if you were working in a publishing house producing loads of optically identical title pages – but this is not the kind of situation we are dealing with here.
I would go for the following settings:
- choose as base font Garamond size 14pt
- 24pt bold should be fine for the main title, 20pt standard for the subtitle
- reduce Line spacing to 1 and any Spacing Above paragraph or Below paragraph to 0 – just press a number of Returns to regulate the placing of lines
Illustration 17. A short paper without a title page
