Markdown to PDF... but Preface, Legal, Acknowledgments, how to?

Markdown to PDF... but Preface, Legal, Acknowledgments, how to?

[ArtComm]

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So far I am getting great results: the PDF's are coming out perfectly 
formatted.

But the resulting pdf is lacking:

Legal
Acknowlegments
Preface
Introduction

In *Book* documents.

I am using the Xelatek engine and the original content is created in 
Markdown.

But I need the above pages to be inserted *before* the TOC.

I can insert the pages by naming them as such and then marking them as not 
being part of the chapter count, but they would be placed *after* the TOC, 
which is *not* according to book structure tradition.

I have control over the yuml markdown inserted or to be inserted section. 
But I need the sections to be recognized by the latex file.

Any suggestions?

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Re: Markdown to PDF... but Preface, Legal, Acknowledgments, how to?

[John MacFarlane]

Your best bet, if you're targeting only latex/pdf, is
to avoid using the --toc option, and instead insert
the requisite latex commands as raw tex in your
markdown document.

You should be able to use `\frontmatter`,
`\mainmatter`, and `\tableofcontents`, and
they will be passed through to the generated latex.

Something like:

\frontmatter

# Legal

blah blah

# Acknowledgements

thanks

# Preface

yaddah yaddah

# Introduction

blah

\tableofcontents

\mainmatter

# Chapter one

Try that.

ArtComm <ffortuny-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> So far I am getting great results: the PDF's are coming out perfectly 
> formatted.
>
> But the resulting pdf is lacking:
>
> Legal
> Acknowlegments
> Preface
> Introduction
>
> In *Book* documents.
>
> I am using the Xelatek engine and the original content is created in 
> Markdown.
>
> But I need the above pages to be inserted *before* the TOC.
>
> I can insert the pages by naming them as such and then marking them as not 
> being part of the chapter count, but they would be placed *after* the TOC, 
> which is *not* according to book structure tradition.
>
> I have control over the yuml markdown inserted or to be inserted section. 
> But I need the sections to be recognized by the latex file.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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Re: Markdown to PDF... but Preface, Legal, Acknowledgments, how to?

[ArtComm]

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Thanks! It did work; partially, but it is working.

Perhaps I need to do something else in order to avoid one-page front matter 
to be presented in lonely pages, since all chapters begin on odd pages.

I would like the front matter stuff to be all in 1 page and the next front 
matter page should start at the next available page and not at the next odd 
page.

Suggestions will be welcome.

The Table of Contents is properly generated and placed at the correct 
place, with front matter pages indicated in Roman numbers. Nice.

Most books I have been checking place the TOC *before* some front matter 
pages; but that does not make much sense.

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Re: Markdown to PDF... but Preface, Legal, Acknowledgments, how to?

[ArtComm]

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The too-much wasted paper problem has been fixed.

Since my web app retrieves material from a database, which is where the 
user is storing her books or articles:

Depending on text material, they are included in:

\frontmatter

(witch \newpage after each text)

\tableofcontents

(this is 100% automatic)

\mainmatter

It is irrelevant for the epub and formats the PDF perfectly.

The TOC looks like this:

<https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yJVIfoSlisI/WzAeR0OFZSI/AAAAAAABQ7w/KsuXFn2YCF8ooCycbNk_8GBGLazcRxJ8gCLcBGAs/s1600/index.JPG>


Where even the TOC itself is located at a Roman Numbered page, just before 
the main matter starts.

 


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