Front, main, and back matter?

[Lyndon Drake <isenguard-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Hi,

Is there any common approach to dealing with front matter, main matter, and 
back matter? In general front matter is often unnumbered or under a 
different page numbering scheme (i, ii, iii, …) and includes such things as 
contents, lists of tables and figures, abbreviations, abstract, preface, 
and so forth. Main matter then is the body of the work, typically in 
chapters, and then the back matter is such things as appendices, indices, 
and bibliographies. In LaTeX these are indicated by the `\frontmatter`, 
`\mainmatter`, and `\backmatter` commands, but it is possible to do similar 
things in other formats albeit with less semantic content.

At the moment, after producing my LaTeX file, I manually move the 
`\frontmatter` command to the correct place. I imagine that I might be able 
to write a filter to do the same thing but I'm not sure how to start.

Given that this is no doubt a common issue for the production of books, I'm 
also wondering if there might be a good way to approach the issue so that 
(in time) there can be a canonical approach to this?

(There might be similar things around 'Part's of books, and to things such 
as variations in citation formatting per-chapter.)

Best,
Lyndon

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