>>> In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never
>>> apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through >>> styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section, >>> subsection, Quote, tip, warning, etc). BUT, in the front matter, feel >>> free to apply appearances directly, and DO NOT use the document class's >>> facilities for title, author, etc, and just write them with proper >>> appearances and spacing. >> >> Am I correct in understand you that I can just skip using the title and >> author environments and write and format the as if body text? Recently I >> tried formatting a title using the section environment and it would not >> compile to pdf without the title and author data. > > You just put them in as author and title, and fix the typography later. One > easy way to do it is just to copy the code that sets the title from the > document class, in this case scrartcl.cls, and modify it as you see fit. > Depending upon whether you have a title page or not, this is either the > \maketitle command or else the \@maketitle command. I don't understand, Richard. This sounds like the normal procedure and what I've been doing and not liking the result. I took Steve to be suggesting going around that. Would not be surprised if I didn't understand. Eric ------ For title page I decided to do them with ERT for spacing and alignment, and all the material in a separate file which then included. You can also do with a graphic design application, create a file and then include it. Marcelo
