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R bookdown - custom title page

How to customize title page using bookdown?

I tried using the following code in the YAML header.

includes:
  in_header: preamble.tex
  before_body: body.tex

The body.tex file was something pretty simple, just for test:

\begin{titlepage}
Hello world
\end{titlepage}
Solution

  • I ended up editing the _output.yml file to reference a copy of default-1.17.0.2.tex template in my R project directory using yaml template tag.

    bookdown::gitbook:
  css: style.css
  config:
    toc:
      before: |
        <li><a href="./">A Minimal Book Example</a></li>
      after: |
        <li><a href="https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown" target="blank">Published with bookdown</a></li>
    edit: https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown-demo/edit/master/%s
    download: ["pdf", "epub"]
bookdown::pdf_book:
    fig_caption: true
    number_sections: yes
    includes:
        in_header: preamble.tex
    latex_engine: xelatex
    citation_package: natbib
    keep_tex: yes
    template: template.tex
bookdown::epub_book: default

    For some reason i had an error compiling the pdf (! Undefined control sequence...) so I included a latex command \usepackage{graphicx} in template.tex to fix it. Now it is supposed that I am free to customize title page and whatsoever.