Re: material at end of book

[Peter Samuel]

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Jeff Kingston wrote:

> I've had a request from Mark Summerfield to add an option for
> including extra material at the extreme back of a book:
> 
> > Whilst putting on a front cover for a book is no problem, how can
> > you put a back cover on...
> 
> > it is not uncommon to include extra material after indexes
> 
> I'be begun working on this, and realized that it raises some design
> issues that are not perhaps apparent at first.  Can I have people's
> comments on these please.
> 
> Does @PageOf last.page refer to the last page including or excluding
> this extra material?
> 
> Are there running headers and footers on pages holding this extra
> material?  If so, what do they look like?
> 
> If this feature is to be used strictly for back covers, then the
> answers to both questions would seem to be No.  But if there is
> other material (collophons etc.) at the back more like part of
> the content of the book, then perhaps that should go in a separate
> major section (analogous to Preface or Introduction, but at the
> back) with the usual big heading, running headers, entry in table
> of contents, etc.
> 
> What do people think?  I'm especially interested, naturally, if
> you have ever wished for such a feature yourself.
> 

The O'Reilly series of technical books has a number of sections after
the index. Typically they are titled "About the Authors" and
"Colophon". Some of the newer editions also have details on other
O'Reilly titles after the "Colophon". None of these pages are
numbered. The last numbered page is the last page of the index.

My copy of the red and white "PostScript Language Reference Manual"
also has a "Colophon". It too is on an un-numbered page. The last
numbered page is the last page of the index. However, the "Colophon"
in my red "PostScript Language Reference Manual" has a numbered
"Colohpon" after the index. Both of these are published by Addison
Wesley.

So the concept is certainly not uncommon but it does seem to be
inconsistent.

I'd like to see the feature added to lout where un-numbered pages
after the "last page" are possible.

Regards
Peter
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