Uwe Stöhr wrote:
tom poe schrieb:
I'm interested in having my book in pdf form, and containing a colored
cover page prior to the Title page...
> Can someone point me to any useful links about these and
other issues, like page numbering, etc.?
have a look at koma-scripts beautiful manual:
english:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/scrguien.pdf
german:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/scrguide.pdf
There's everything exlained you mentioned.
regards Uwe
Uwe: Thanks for reminding me. I have the manual sitting on my desktop.
When I feebly attempted to use it as a reference, I was reminded of my
experience as a beginning medical student. I subscribed to three
medical journals, and read each issue word-for-word, for a year. At the
end of the year, I had become comfortable with a sizable medical
vocabulary. However, during the course of the year, I was mostly
overwhelmed with the volume of words and terms and phrases that were
totally foreign to me.
Which brings me to one of my "hot buttons". Why in the world would a
manual whose purpose is to assist new students to a subject, choose to
display itself as a billboard? What possible advantage can there be to
lock up the information in the .pdf file format, so that it cannot be
utilized by others, other than to read it page by page? Why not put it
in a format that permits others to utilize text search and source views
to try and understand the information? No answer is expected. Just
needed to rant a little.
Tom
