Thanks to el and to SteveT for their comments. I will certainly look into
the standard book class for future needs. I've always gone for the
specialized classes, thinking them to be more polished, as of course they
are; but I hadn't thought of the downside.
Just to bring the topic to a close from my side, Marcus Kohm was very
helpful, as el had said promised.
The book I'm doing (2nd ed) is meant to be pocket-sized, so it is
A6-formatted, about 100 pages long, which means I have to maximize the
usage of space, beyond what is - from a purely aesthetic standpoint -
ideal. The 1st problem Marcus K. discovered from my MWE was the unusually
long subtitle (six lines, in Sanskrit, mandated by the publisher). When I
shortened it to 3, the publication matter popped onto the backside of the
title page without problem. (Even with the 6 lines there was physically
enough room, respecting margins, which is why I didn't see it as a source
of the problem, but Komascript didn't like it.) Secondly, he showed me how
to keep the 6-line subtitle and still get the publication matter on the
reverse side, by pushing the publisher info further down on the title page
thus:
\publishers{%
\enlargethispage{2\baselineskip}%
संस्कृताध्ययनविभागः\\
रामकृष्णमिशन्-विवेकानन्द-विश्वविद्यालयः}
Then \uppertitleback{xyz...} comes after that, with several paragraphs of
formatted publication info. Thus the problem was solved without telling the
publisher that I had to reduce the subtitle.
Swami, from a remote corner of the Himalayas.
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Swami Atmarupananda <
atmarupana...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Many thanks. I have contacted him, got a reply, and sent him an MWE.
> Swami
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse <nos...@lisse.na>
> wrote:
>
>> Komascript issue.
>>
>> Contact the author of the package, who is very helpful.
>>
>> el
>>
>> On 2016-07-19 12:18, Swami Atmarupananda wrote:
>> > Greetings.
>> > I'm redoing through lyx a book whose 1st edition I wrote in latex. All
>> > has worked excellently well -- much quicker than the original latex --
>> > except one problem. I'm using KOMA scrbook, which forces a blank page
>> > after the title page. (The first edition used memoir which doesn't have
>> > the problem.) But I need to put publication info on the backside (verso)
>> > of the title page, and can't figure out how to override the forced blank
>> > page. (Other forced blank pages after part and chapter headings are not
>> > an issue.)
>> >
>> > I see provision for the environments "uppertitleback" and
>> > "lowertitleback" under scrbook, which promise to do most of what I want
>> > (maybe all), but I can't get them to work. The manual says that the
>> > matter within the environment must be put before the \maketitle command.
>> > I'm not sure where LyX puts that command, but in latex it comes just
>> > after the titlepage information (title, author, date, publisher) is
>> > entered. So I put the matter with environment just after \frontmatter
>> > (i.e. immediately above the titlepage matter), but it still appears on
>> > the next righthand (recto) page after the titlepage; and I also tried
>> > putting it in the middle of the titlepage matter, and at the end, but it
>> > still comes on the next recto page. Same with matter in the
>> > lowertitleback environment. I've tried it by typing in the matter in lyx
>> > and selecting the environment from the dropdown menu, and I've tried it
>> > by entering latex code. Same thing.
>> >
>> > So, to state it simply, I want to put a page-worth of material on the
>> > backside of the title page, where scrbook forces a blank page. Anything
>> > that works is fine -- the simpler the better. The one workaround
>> > mentioned above may not be sufficient even if I could get it to work,
>> > which I can't, because uppertitleback and lowertitleback seem to be
>> > designed for a single paragraph each, and I have several worth of
>> > publication data.
>> >
>> > Using LyX 2.1.4 under Ubuntu 16.04.
>> >
>> > Many thanks for any help.
>> > Swami
>>
>>
>
