Currently working on a document of type article. I'd like to add two horizontal lines above and below the title. I tried the following:
\documentclass{article} \begin{document} \line(1,0){250} \title{A Title} \line(1,0){250} \author{FirstName LastName} \maketitle \clearpage \end{document} This does not give the desired effect, and splits the title page into multiple pages. Could you advise?
Try adding the line inside \titles argument:
\title{\line(1,0){250}\\A Title\\\line(1,0){250}} Code:
\documentclass{article} \begin{document} \title{\line(1,0){250}\\A Title\\\line(1,0){250}} \author{FirstName LastName} \maketitle \clearpage \end{document} 
Same with titling package:
\documentclass{article} \usepackage{titling} \begin{document} \pretitle{% \begin{center}\LARGE \rule{3in}{0.4pt}\par } \posttitle{\par\rule{3in}{0.4pt}\end{center}\vskip 0.5em} \title{A Title} \author{FirstName LastName} \maketitle \clearpage \end{document} Well you can custom easily your title page with the titlepage environment. Belong your MWE we can get:
Here is the code:
\documentclass{article} \begin{document} \begin{titlepage} \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} \setlength{\parskip}{0pt} \vspace*{\stretch{1}} \rule{\linewidth}{1pt} \begin{flushright} \Huge A Title \\[14pt] First Name Last Name \end{flushright} \rule{\linewidth}{2pt} \vspace*{\stretch{2}} \end{titlepage} \end{document} Notice the way of build the lines and their thickness.
You don't need more. You can build manually a title page with this environment. If you do that will be useful to use commands such as \vspace, \vspace*, \vfill, between others.
