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From: Don Hosek <DHOSEK@HMCVAX.bitnet>
To: Rainer Schoepf <BK4@DHDURZ1.uucp>
Subject:      \maketitle in the preamble
Date:         Tue, 7 Aug 90 03:47:00 PDT
Status: R
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One of the most common mistakes that I see from LaTeX users is typing
\maketitle before \begin{document}; since this causes horrible things to
happen, perhaps we should make sure that this causes an error.

This is one of the unfortunately weak areas of the LaTeX manual, by the
way.

-dh