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Hi guys,

What's the best way to mark-up endorsements and content that either goes
before or after the main book? ie. Content before the titlepage and
after the index.
An example is endoresements are placed sometimes at the beginning and
sometimes at the end. Also there is the occasion where a page of content
is added at the end of the book. Both of these are generally excluded
from the TOC.

I assume if it goes before the titlepage it gets selected in
<xsl:template name="book.titlepage.before.recto">? But I just wanted to
check how people have marked endorsements up?

Many thanks, appreciate the help,

Peter<skype:peterfleck?call>

Hi Peter,

For additional material after the index, I use colophon, which does not appear in the TOC.

When I want endorsements before the inside titlepage, I usually cheat and insert a page manually in the PDF:-).

That said, you can do pretty much whatever you want with the titlepage processing, so it might be possible to do an endorsements page there. I'd check out the section on titlepages in Bob Stayton's book. I'm pretty sure it doesn't have exact instructions on doing this, but it might give you some ideas.

Best regards,
Dick Hamilton
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XML Press
XML for Technical Communicators
http://xmlpress.net
hamilton@xmlpress.net



On May 29, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Peter Fleck wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> What's the best way to mark-up endorsements and content that either goes before or after the main book? ie. Content before the titlepage and after the index.
> An example is endoresements are placed sometimes at the beginning and sometimes at the end. Also there is the occasion where a page of content is added at the end of the book. Both of these are generally excluded from the TOC.
>
> I assume if it goes before the titlepage it gets selected in <xsl:template name="book.titlepage.before.recto">? But I just wanted to check how people have marked endorsements up?
>
> Many thanks, appreciate the help,
>
> Peter
>