Veronica Berglyd Olsen
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.. _docs_usage_front_back_matter:
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Front and Back Matter
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Front and back matter documents are documents that go before and after your main story text. They
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can include pages like your cover page, content tables, prologues, epilogues, etc. These special
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pages and sections are supported to some extent by novelWriter.
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.. _docs_usage_front_back_matter_title:
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The Title Page
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==============
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It is recommended that you add a document at the very top of each **Novel** root folder with the
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novel title in it. You should modify the level 1 heading format code with an ``!`` in order to
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render it as a document title that is excluded from any automatic Table of Content in a manuscript
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build document.
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You can also add the author name and address above this if this is required by the manuscript
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format you use, and additional space added before the title.
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:bdg-info:`Example`
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This is the title page novelWriter generates automatically for a new project as of version 2.6:
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.. code-block:: md
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Jane Doe[br]
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Address Line 1[br]
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Address Line 2 <<
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[vspace:5]
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#! My Novel
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>> **By Jane Doe** <<
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>> Word Count: [field:textWords] <<
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The title is by default centred on the page. You can add more text to the page as you wish, like
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for instance the author's name and details.
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.. _docs_usage_front_back_matter_pages:
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Additional Pages
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If you want an additional page of text after the title page, starting on a fresh page, you can add
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``[new page]`` on a line by itself, and continue the text after it. This will insert a page break
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before the text. See :ref:`docs_usage_formatting_breaks` for more details.
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.. _docs_usage_front_back_matter_unnumbered:
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Unnumbered Chapters
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If you use the automatic numbering feature for your chapters, but you want to keep some special
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chapters separate from this, you can add an ``!`` to the level 2 heading formatting code to tell
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the build tool to skip these chapters when adding numbers.
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Unnumbered chapters are useful for prologue and epilogue chapters, and also for interlude chapters
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if you use those in your text. There is a separate formatting feature for such chapter titles in
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the **Manuscript Build** tool. See the :ref:`docs_ui_manuscript` page for more details.
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:bdg-info:`Example`
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.. code-block:: md
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##! Unnumbered Chapter Title
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Chapter Text
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