Andreas Wapf wrote:

Hello

I'm searching a way to place a title on top of a new page with \title and sometimes an additonal text (name of the author or something else) directly under the title. But the main text should always start some distance from the header and not from the title. Is this possible?

As an example:

with a little text: header ---------- title 1 author x y

main text 4 new lines from the header

without the short text:

header ---------- title 1

main text 4 new lines from the header

\vbox to 4\lineheight \bgroup title 1 author x y \vfill \egroup will do that; ok, you may add some strutdepth or so: \vbox to 4\lineheight \bgroup title 1 author x y \vfill \egroup \vskip-\prevdepth \vskip-\lineheight \strut \par you can also use \framed[lines=4,align=normal]{...} Hans