Rich Shepard writes: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Steve Litt wrote: > >> Acknowledgements, dedication, title page, copyright page, about the >> author, table of contents, and sometimes "how to use this book" or "about >> this book." > > Thanks, Steve. > >> One more thing: In the old days I recommended ERT fingerpainting the >> frontmatter. Due to the advent of flowing text eBook formats like ePub and >> Mobi, > > This will not be an eBook; it will be printed and bound for each student > in the class. It ain't a mass-market trade book. :-) > > Rich Hi Rich, I would normally defer to Steve on most of these questions, but I do think that a printed book has a more or less standard set of frontmatter pages.
In my little (and mostly outdated) book 'Self-publishing with LyX', I discuss the ordinary frontmatter pages and how they might be set up with the ordinary book class. http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 HTH, Alan -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 sip:172...@iptel.org
