Re: material at end of book

[Mark Summerfield]

Jeff,

I don't know how much work these involve, but it seems to me that two 
mechanisms are desirable.

1. The whole thing - a "back section" that is like a preface etc. except 
that it follows the index(es), has its own optional headers and footers and 
may optionally be page numbered.

2. Unnumbered post-index(es) pages.

In either case in my view last.page should be the last page of the last 
index; perhaps a different variable "final.page" could be used for the very 
last page if numbers run beyond the index.

Regards.


On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:12:46 +1000 Jeff Kingston 
<address@hidden> 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.
> 
> Jeff Kingston
> 

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