Adding text before the document title

[Harsh Pathak]

I want to add some text before the document title. Here is an example
from the document i am creating

\documentclass[10pt](article)
\title{ This is a sample}
\date{}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

<some text and paragraphs here>

\end{document}

Now I want to add a right aligned text before the title and keep it on
the same page. I tried using \hfill{} but the \maketitle command by
defualt creates the title on new page

What i want is:

<some text>
This is a
sample


Can anyone please help me out?

[Bruno Lopes]

Hello!

Just put your text between \begin{flushright} \end{flushright}.

Cheers,

Bruno.

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[Werner Grundlingh]

In the article document class, \maketitle merely sets the contents of \@author, \@title and \@date (created by \author, \title and \date) in a neat way. You can place anything before it without it affecting \maketitle. Therefore, use Bruno's suggestion, but you also need to remove the \newpage issued by \maketitle. The easiest way to do so is to use grouping, which allows for a temporary change to some macro (\newpage in this case):

\begin{flushright}

  <your content goes here>

\end{flushright}

\begingroup

\let\newpage\relax% Void the actions of \newpage

\maketitle

\endgroup

[Peter Flynn]

If you want the text in every page, it's called a "running header" and  you do it with the fancyhdr package.

It is very rare to put this on a title page, but perfectly possible.

P