Specify additional/secondary information for title page

[rbeezer]

Two use cases:

1. An author of a supplement or appendix who is credited here.
2. "Submitted in partial fulfillment...." - Does this part of a thesis typically go on the title page?

Maybe part of this work should include "Originally published as..." that typically goes footnote-style on the same page as most of this information.

[rbeezer]

Another use case - giving credit to both original author and a translator on a translation of an existing work.

[davidfarmer]

I looked at a bunch of books and also re-read the appropriate sections of two books on book design.

Not much goes on a title page. Credit to the translator and the illustrator are common, as is credit to the editor even when there is an author (e.g., a scholarly volume of a famous old book). But an open source book with a huge number of contributors could break the age-old model if you try to list everyone.

Authors of intruductions/prefaces/appendices can go on the title page.

The "Submitted in partial fulfillment..." has no place on the title page of a book. But the submitted thesis is not a book.

The book "Bookmaking" by Marshall Lee writes

The title page may contain some or all of the following elements:

a) title

b) author

c) subtitle

d) credits (translator, editor, illustrator, author of introduction and/or foreward and/or preface)

e) publisher's name

f) publisher's trademark

g) date

h) copyright notice

i) quotation

j) illustration

Note however (back to Farmer writing, not quoting Lee) the copyright notice typically goes elsewhere, specifically the back side of the title page, assuming the title page is a right-hand page.

[davidfarmer]

I don't think you want full contact information on the title page. That can go on the copyright page.

[rbeezer]

Thanks, David - that is very helpful.

I think I will associate the authors' names with the "titlepage" element, but migrate most of the contact info to the copyright page.

And you are certainly right about a thesis - maybe someday there will be a "thesis" element.

Rob

On 03/27/2015 01:44 PM, davidfarmer wrote:

I looked at a bunch of books and also re-read the appropriate sections of two books on book design.

Not much goes on a title page. Credit to the translator and the illustrator are common, as is credit to the editor even when there is an author (e.g., a scholarly volume of a famous old book). But an open source book with a huge number of contributors could break the age-old model if you try to list everyone.

Authors of intruductions/prefaces/appendices can go on the title page.

The "Submitted in partial fulfillment..." has no place on the title page of a book. But the submitted thesis is not a book.

The book "Bookmaking" by Marshall Lee writes

The title page may contain some or all of the following elements:

a) title

b) author

c) subtitle

d) credits (translator, editor, illustrator, author of introduction and/or foreward and/or preface)

e) publisher's name

f) publisher's trademark

g) date

h) copyright notice

i) quotation

j) illustration

Note however (back to Farmer writing, not quoting Lee) the copyright notice typically goes elsewhere, specifically the back side of the title page, assuming the title page is a right-hand page.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/rbeezer/mathbook/issues/74#issuecomment-87084582.

[rbeezer]

Making a single image possible might be a good addition.