You may wish to include an Introduction, Acknowledgements or other material before the start of your book. Pressbooks lets you easily format these and other items as front matter in your book, which will appear prior to the main body.<\/p>\n
This chapter will explain:<\/p>\n
Front matter is the stuff that goes at the beginning of the book\u00a0— before you get into the meat and potatoes. Front matter can include such things as: Preface, Dedication, Foreword, as well as the Title Page and Copyright page.<\/p>\n
Front matter items function similarly to chapters. You can create, edit, delete, rename or reorder front matter items the same way that you would with Chapters<\/a>, with one\u00a0additional option.<\/p>\n The Front Matter Types menu lets you indicate an item’s type – which\u00a0may change how it is styled in outputs.<\/p>\n