Front and end matter
The front matter comprises the prelim pages, which are usually paginated using Roman numerals. Capture all front matter for books in a frontMatter element. End matter includes appendices, bibliographies, and indexes, tagged using appendixGroup, bibliographyGroup and indexGroup, respectively. Capture any other front or end matter using the miscMatterGroup element.
Front matter
/book/frontMatter
Generally the mainText in books begins when Arabic pagination begins. However, an exception to this is when page 1 of the book is another half title page; here page 1 remains part of frontMatter, captured as miscMatter with attribute class="halftitle", and page 2 begins the mainText (or page 3 if page 2 is blank). (Don’t confuse this case with a normal part/section title on page 1 of the book.)
frontMatter/miscMatterGroup/miscMatter
Capture inside cover material, front endpapers (if present) and prelim pages in a single miscMatterGroup element.
Capture each part of the front matter using miscMatter within miscMatterGroup. Indicate the class of each front matter part using the class attribute on the miscMatter element that contains it.
An Introduction should not be front matter except for when the page number is roman or typecodes indictate so.
The full XML of a book normally contains miscMatter elements with classes of
"halftitle", "titlepage"
and Copyright page (title verso).
End matter
| BMCT | Titles for individual sections of end matter (except for appendices) |
/book/endMatter
Capture the end matter of a book within endMatter.