>
> This is just one man's opinion, but I never use the document class's features
> for the front matter. I just use custom environments and ERT (embedded LaTeX)
> to place all elements of the front matter -- the title, the author, the cover
> image, the copyright page, the dedication and acknowledgements, the "here's
> how you use this book", the "about the author", etc. The way I see it, every
> element of the frontmatter is a one-off thing, and one-off things are ideal
> for fingerpainting.
I actually go one step further. I crate all of the frontmatter using a matching
stylesheet in Scribs. I then add the material using PDFpages.
To that end, I also disable the \maketitle macro so that I can still use
\author, \title, etc. and have all of my headers and footers look correct.
\renewcommand{\maketitle}{}
