geting rid of extra page at beginning?

[andjorhanson]

Hi - I am working on my new Elsevier book, in latex/dvips mode (not pdflatex),
and have a nice cover page, both in eps and pdf. \includepdf fails because it's
a dummy action in dvips mode. So I tried this using \includegraphics

\begin{frontmatter}
%\begin{minipage}{8in}
\vspace*{-2in}
\hspace*{-1.6in}
\includegraphics[width=8.5in]{00CoverImages/QuatBookII-Cover}
% \end{minipage}
\end{frontmatter}

and it actually works perfectly, the correct appearance (even if it is cheat),
but it pops out a preceding empty page "i" . I know this is a really stupid
question, but there must be a way to put in the cover page at the beginning
in a clean way that goes gracefully in the titlepage.tex from the above cover.tex
Do you have a trick to do that? The eBook for my first book "Visualizing
Quaternions" has the cover page from the hardcopy placed very nicely,
and I'd like to duplicate that in my book-2 drafts that I send to Elsevier.
Everything else seems to be working pretty well so far, thanks for
your previous assistance!

Andy

[dgalcius]

Hi Andy,
my guess is that your cover image is too large to fit into page.
I would try something like this:

\begin{titlepage}%
  \setcounter{page}{0}% put cover image on page 0, titlepage on page 1
  %
  % set  cover image into a box of zero-height and textwidth.
  %
  \vbox to 0pt{%
    \makebox[\textwidth]{\includegraphics[width=8.5in]{00CoverImages/QuatBookII-Cover}}%
  }
  %
  % Or, alternatively, put cover image into {picture} environment, e.g.,
  % \begin{picture}(400,600)(40,60)
  %     \makebox(400,600){\includegraphics[width=8.5in]{00CoverImages/QuatBookII-Cover}}
  % \end{picture}
  %
  \clearpage % force next page to print titlepage
  \begin{titlepagerule}
  \title{.....}

Hope it helps.
best regards, - deimi

[andjorhanson]

Dear Deimantas, I am hoping I have figured out the right way to communicate -- this seems to be where the github system wants me to find you for VTeX Elsevier Support. I successfully inserted my cover page as you instructed, and got the numbering to start on the title page. The problem is that the top left of the title page now has a number, a Roman numeral "i" at the top left under the top-of-page "rule" of the Elsevier page style. All the instructions I can find on the web say to simply insert \thispagestyle{empty} in the titlepage file to remove the page number "i". Unfortunately, every possible way I try to do this ALSO removes the Elsevier page style "rule" at the top of every page, and which is on the top of the title page by default. How do I remove the titlepage page number "i" without also erroneously deleting the titlepage top-of-page "rule" possessed by all the pages in this book format? Thanks, Andy

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--- here is my current almost working title page----- \begin{titlepage}% \setcounter{page}{0}% put cover image on page 0, titlepage on page 1 % % set cover image into a box of zero-height and textwidth. % \vspace*{-2.115in} % -2.12 is pretty close \vbox to 0pt{% \makebox[\textwidth]{\includegraphics[width=8.5in]{00CoverImages/QuatBookII-Cover}}% } % \clearpage % the title page has a spurious roman "i" page number. % the only known method to remove it, by adding this here: %%% \thispagestyle{empty} % also deletes the Elsevier top-of-page "rule" that seems % to be required for consistency of the Elsevier format on the title page. \begin{titlepagerule} %% \title{Visualizing More Quaternions} %% -- attempt a more interesting formatting -- \title{Visualizing \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \\ More \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \\ Quaternions \ \ } %\subtitle{Book Subtitle} %\volume{2} \end{titlepagerule} %% \edition{2nd edition} % \editedby{Edited by} \author{Andrew J. Hanson} \address{Indiana University} % \address{Author Address\\Department of Chemistry\\University of Florida} \end{titlepage}

[dgalcius]

Dear Andy,

The running head rules on the titlepage is a side effect of the cover image being put on the preceding page.
There should be no running head rules nor page number on the titlepage. The heading rules should appear starting from
Chapter 1. Your approach is correct, - please use \thisispagestyle{empty} to remove the page number and rules from the titlepage.

best regards, - deimi

[andjorhanson]

Dear Deimantis, I am working away at "Visualizing More Quaternions" using your most recent update of: ----------------------------------------- \documentclass[p04]{elsevierbook} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Simulate p05 %%% WARNING- INFORM LAYOUT TEAM TO USE P05!! %%% %%P04 layout model specs for Text Area - Drop 185.737 mm x Width 118.71 mm %%P05 layout model specs for Text Area - Drop 185.737 mm x Width 143.757 mm \geometry{body={143.757mm,185.737mm}} % P5 modification % \geometry{body={143.757mm,185.737mm},showframe}

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-------------------------------------------- Question 1. For Figures with multiple parts, in different parts of the manuscript, I notice that some places I use (a) (b) (c) (d) labels and in others I use (A) (B) (C) (D). Over the years, I have preferred mostly (a) (b) (c) (d), and in the first volume, "Visualizing Quaternions," we used (a) (b) (c) (d). Is there a directive for this book to use one or the other? There may be an instruction buried somewhere, but I don't recall. Question 2. You gave me instructions for including appendices to an individual chapter with \sectionappendix followed at the end of the Chapter file by \appto\frontmatter{\gdef\thesection{\thechapter.\arabic{section}}} That seems to be working fine, and I THINK I have followed these rules, though I'm not 100% certain as there are a number of files I haven't updated recently. But what's happening is that in the book.tex BOOK global appendices, with \appendix \chapter*{Appendices} \include{AppNotation} \include{AppLeviCivita} etc. I am getting misbehavior: the Table of Contents lists these odd labels: (the contents are in the right order, the order in the book.tex \include{file} ) ... ... Chapter 22 XXXX 22.1 xxxx 22.2 xxxx APPENDIX E. YYYYY E.1. yyyy E.2 yyyy APPENDIX C. YYYYY C.1. yyyy C.2 yyyy APPENDIX D. YYYYY D.1. yyyy D.2 yyyy APPENDIX F. YYYYY F.1. yyyy F.2 yyyy APPENDIX B. YYYYY B.1. yyyy B.2 yyyy APPENDIX C. YYYYY C.1. yyyy C.2 yyyy APPENDIX D. YYYYY D.1. yyyy D.2 yyyy APPENDIX E. YYYYY E.1. yyyy E.2 yyyy Question 3: Also I've got one of those extra-paren warnings someplace (\end occurred inside a group at level 1) ### simple group (level 1) entered at line 205 ({) ### bottom level that I CANNOT find: I have used an empty \includeonly, \includeonly{justOneFile}, I have deleted the book.aux and all the recently used .aux's, and the "end occurred" just never goes away, so I can't seem to pin it down to one particular location in the text. Do you have any tricks to find these ghosts? Thanks, Andy

[dgalcius]

Dear Andy,

Answer to Q1: Please use lowercase letters (a), (b), (c), etc. for different figure parts.

Answer to Q2: Table of contents will be auto generated in production stage. Please leave it as it is.

Answer to Q3: It might be tricky:

• Option 1: Leave it as it is.
• Option 2: on my machine (linux+emacs) I would set some tracing options in book.tex preamble:

    \tracingcommands2
    \tracingmacros2
    \tracinggroups2
    \tracingnesting2

After compilation which should produce a huge log file I would grep the book.log for lines:

$ grep -a '(level 1)'  book.log 

which would produce a list of lines from book.log which contains line '(level 1)' .
Going from bottom to top in the list it might be possible to pin down to the location.
(Do not forget to delete tracing commands in the preamble afterwards)
Anyway, probably I would stick with Option 1.

thanks you.
Regards, - deimi