@titlepage ¶Start the material for the title page and following copyright page
with @titlepage on a line by itself and end it with
@end titlepage on a line by itself.
The @end titlepage command starts a new page and turns on page
numbering (see Heading Generation). All the
material that you want to appear on unnumbered pages should be put
between the @titlepage and @end titlepage commands.
By using the @page command, you can force a page break within the
region delineated by the @titlepage and @end titlepage
commands and thereby create more than one unnumbered page. This is how
the copyright page is produced. (The @titlepage command might
perhaps have been better named the @titleandadditionalpages
command, but that would have been rather long!)
When you write a manual about a computer program, you should write the version of the program to which the manual applies on the title page. If the manual changes more frequently than the program or is independent of it, you should also include an edition number2 for the manual. This helps readers keep track of which manual is for which version of the program. (The ‘Top’ node should also contain this information; see The ‘Top’ Node and Master Menu.)
One method uses the @title, @subtitle, and
@author commands to create a title page. With this method,
you do not specify any of the actual formatting of the title page.
You specify the text you want, and Texinfo does the formatting.
The usual formatting consist of black rules under
the title and author lines and the subtitle text set flush to the
right-hand side of the page.
Texinfo also provides a second method for creating a title page.
using typesetting commands that are not to be used in the main text.
This method uses uses the @titlefont, @sp, and @center
commands to generate a title page in which the words on the page are
centered.
For sufficiently simple documents, and for the bastard title page in
traditional book frontmatter, Texinfo also provides a command
@shorttitlepage which takes the rest of the line as the title.
The argument is typeset on a page by itself and followed by a blank
page. In HTML, @shorttitlepage can play the same role as
@settitle, if @settitle is not set. See @settitle: Set the Document Title.
We have found that it is helpful to refer to versions of independent manuals as ‘editions’ and versions of programs as ‘versions’; otherwise, we find we are liable to confuse each other in conversation by referring to both the documentation and the software with the same words.