Hello,

We are printing two documents that are part of our software help system. We
are having an issue with customizing the front matter for our needs.

Right now we have one title page with the publication/revision information
on the 'verso', followed by the generated table of contents. The page
numbering begins with the titlepage (even though it's not printed, which is
fine), so that the table of contents is page 3.

What we would like is to add another simple title page as is found in most
published books. How does one do this?

We would also like to change the page numbering format so that the front
matter, beginning with the first title page is in roman numerals and then
is reset with the the first page of the manual. We would also like first
page of the manual to begin on the right.

To summarize, this is what we're looking for:

Titlepage(1)           recto     i      (right)
(blank)                  verso    ii      (left)

Titlepage(2)           recto    iii      (right)
(pub/rev info)          verso    iv      (left)

Table of contents    recto   v        (right)

Introduction           recto     1       (right)

The documents are articles and not books. We are using DocBook 4, with
docbook-xsl 1.73.2 and fop-0.93. I have consulted the chapters in the
DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide but I have not been able to apply anything
successfully. Can an article have front matter just like a book?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

-Gabriela

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