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Though identical in treatment, mom provides two kinds of cover pages: document cover pages (”doc covers”) and section cover pages (“covers”). Section cover pages are analogous to title pages.
A doc cover is what you’d most likely use at the start of a collated document, where you might want the name of the complete document, the author(s) and the copyright line to appear. Another place you might use a doc cover is for a novel, where you want the title of the novel, not the chapter title or chapter number, as the first cover page.
A cover is what you’d use for pages that separate sections of a collated document, i.e. title pages. A cover page (but not a doc cover) in a collated document could, for example, simply read: ”PART 1”.
In non-collated documents (say, an essay) you can use either a cover or doc cover to generate the cover sheet.
In addition, nothing prevents you from generating both a doc cover and a cover for every document in a collated document. Or you can selectively disable the automatic generation of either doc covers or covers in a collated document on-the-fly.
Important note: Automatic generation of covers or doc covers after the first one(s) only takes place if you are working with collated documents. Mom provides no mechanism for saying ”print a section cover here even though I’m still working on the same (non-collated) document.”
By default, mom typesets covers and doc covers identically to docheaders (see How to change the look of docheaders for a description of what a docheader looks like). The only differences are
You tell mom what you want to appear on cover pages through the arguments you pass to DOC_COVER and/or COVER. Provided you have already given mom the appropriate reference macros (e.g. TITLE or AUTHOR), she will output covers and doc covers identically to how she would output docheaders containing the same information.
By default, mom starts covers and doc covers one-third of the way down the page. This can be changed through the use of the control macros DOC_COVER_START_POS / COVER_START_POS (or DOC_COVER_ADVANCE / COVER_ADVANCE).
If you request copyright information (and have already given mom the reference macro COPYRIGHT) she sets it, by default, in a smaller point size in the bottom right hand corner of the cover or doc cover. The position, as well as all of the standard typesetting parameters, can be altered via control macros.
Similarly, if you request miscellaneous information (and have already given mom the reference macro MISC) she sets it, by default, in a smaller point size in the bottom left hand corner of the cover or doc cover. As with the copyright, the position and type specs can be altered via control macros.
Mom does not set any
headers
or
footers
on cover pages. Neither does she set any page numbers. From
the point of view of pagination, covers and doc covers are by
default considered ”null” pages. If you wish them to
be included in the pagination scheme (even though no page numbers
appear), you must tell mom that’s what you want by invoking
.DOC_COVER_COUNTS_PAGES
or
.COVER_COUNTS_PAGES
Finally, if you want to design your own cover page(s), you can typeset them by hand inside a COVERTEXT block using mom’s typesetting macros to format the text.
Doc-cover and cover data—that is to say, the strings passed to reference macros that appear on doc cover and cover pages—do not persist after START, however the formatting of the various parts (TITLE, AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, etc.) does.
DOC_COVER and COVER behave identically. The reason mom provides two macros for cover page generation is so that you can have two different kinds of covers with different information on each.
Imagine, for a moment, you’ve written a document comprised of three sections. When you COLLATE the document for output, you could use DOC_COVER to generate a cover page that contained the name of the entire document, your (the author’s) name, and perhaps the copyright date. Subsequently, you could use COVER, after each .COLLATE but before each .START, to generate a cover page (title page, cover sheet) containing just the name of the section, for example, “Part 1”.
The arguments to DOC_COVER and COVER tell mom
what you’d like on cover pages. You may give as many or as
few arguments as you need, in any order. A very common setup would
be:
.COVER TITLE AUTHOR COPYRIGHT
The arguments to COVER and DOC_COVER tell mom
what you want on the cover page:
TITLE | DOCTITLE | DOC_COVERTITLE | COVERTITLE
CHAPTER | CHAPTER_TITLE | CHAPTER+TITLE
SUBTITLE
AUTHOR
DOCTYPE
DOC_COVERTEXT | COVERTEXT
DOC_COVER_IMAGE | COVER_IMAGE
COPYRIGHT
MISC
PDF_OUTLINE_LABEL "<label>"
BLANKPAGE
Please note that in all cases, if you have passed
a reference macro one of the optional arguments
DOC_COVER or COVER (e.g.
.TITLE DOC_COVER "Title"), mom will print the
appropriate string on the appropriate cover page. Thus,
.TITLE DOC_COVER "Collected Essays"
.TITLE COVER "1985-2015"
.TITLE "Neo-liberalism: Who Did They Think They Were Fooling?"
.DOC_COVER TITLE
.COVER TITLE
will print “Collected Essays” on the doc cover page,
“1985-2015” on the cover page, and, assuming the
docheader hasn’t been disabled, “Neo-liberalism: Who
Did They Think They Were Fooling?” as the title in the
docheader.
Note that
.DOC_COVERTITLE "Collected Essays"
.COVERTITLE "1985-2015"
.TITLE "Neo-liberalism: Who Did They Think They Were Fooling?"
.DOC_COVER DOC_COVERTITLE
.COVER COVERTITLE
could be used to accomplish the same thing.
• CHAPTER
The CHAPTER argument will print the
CHAPTER_STRING
concatenated with the chapter number you gave to
CHAPTER.
For example, assuming a vanilla setup for your chapter:
.CHAPTER 1
.CHAPTER_TITLE "The Bonny Blue Yonder"
.COVER CHAPTER \" (or .DOC_COVER CHAPTER)
will print (and only print)
Chapter 1
• CHAPTER_TITLE
The CHAPTER_TITLE argument will print the chapter title
you gave to
CHAPTER_TITLE.
For example, assuming a vanilla setup for your chapter:
.CHAPTER 1
.CHAPTER_TITLE "The Bonny Blue Yonder"
.COVER CHAPTER_TITLE \"(or .DOC_COVER CHAPTER_TITLE)
will print (and only print)
The Bonny Blue Yonder
• CHAPTER+TITLE
The CHAPTER+TITLE argument will print both the
concatenated chapter string+number and the chapter title. For
example, assuming a vanilla setup for your chapter:
.CHAPTER 1
.CHAPTER_TITLE "The Bonny Blue Yonder"
.COVER CHAPTER+TITLE \"(or .DOC_COVER CHAPTER+TITLE)
will print
Chapter 1
The Bonny Blue Yonder
• Must come after PRINTSTYLE
DOC_COVERTEXT and COVERTEXT allow you to add text to doc covers and covers in addition to, or instead of, what is generated by mom from the arguments you give to DOC_COVER and COVER.
Invoke .DOC_COVERTEXT or .COVERTEXT on a line by itself, follow it with the text and formatting you desire, and terminate the text block with .DOC_COVERTEXT OFF or COVERTEXT OFF (or QUIT, END, DONE, etc.).
By default, cover text is set over the full line length of the document, using the style parameters of running text. Therefore, as noted, these macros must come after PRINTSTYLE and any global style changes (margins, family, size, leading, etc.). Formatting within a cover text block must be done “manually” with mom’s typesetting macros; PP is the only allowed document element tag.
If you do not instruct mom to put anything on doc cover or cover pages except DOC_COVERTEXT or COVERTEXT, the cover text will begin at the document’s top margin. Equally, if only COPYRIGHT and/or MISC are to go on the pages, cover text begins at the top margin. In all other cases, cover text begins below the last element on the page (excluding COPYRIGHT or MISC), separated by a blank line.
If you wish to change the starting position of the text, you must use SP or ALD to move it further down the page. Alternatively, you may use the optional START argument to give a precise location for the text to begin.
DOC_COVERTEXT and COVERTEXT are particularly useful for putting abstracts on cover pages, as technical reports often require.
Here’s a simple recipe for setting an abstract:
.COVERTEXT
.FT BI
.PT_SIZE 14
.LS 14
.CENTER
Abstract
.SP .5v
.FT R
.PT_SIZE 12
.IB 6P
.JUSTIFY
Text of Abstract...
.COVERTEXT OFF
Assuming you have told mom to put the title and author on the
cover page, the abstract will appear beneath the author with a
14-point bold-italic title, centered, with the text of the abstract
medium-roman and justified, indented 6 picas from both margins.
There are times you need a full page image on a cover, for example the jacket of a book. Equally, there are times when you need a small image on the cover, perhaps a company logo.
DOC_COVER_IMAGE and COVER_IMAGE take the same arguments as PDF_IMAGE, and in the same order. Consult PDF_IMAGE for a description.
Two additional arguments allow you to place images using x-y coordinates. Please note that if you use x-y coordinates for positioning, Y-pos comes before X-pos in the order of arguments.
Like PDF_IMAGE, the image file must be in PDF format. Mom apologizes, but PostScript images are not supported for inclusion on covers. See Image conversion and file processing for instructions on converting various image types to PDF, and here for instructions on obtaining image dimensions.
With no arguments other than <file name>,
<width>, and <height>,
DOC_COVER_IMAGE and COVER_IMAGE place images flush with the top
left corner of the printer sheet. This allows placing full-page
background images on covers. For example, assuming a US-letter page
size,
.DOC_COVER_IMAGE image.pdf 612p 792p
.DOC_COVER TITLE AUTHOR DOC_COVER_IMAGE
will fill the doc cover page with “image.pdf” and set
the title and author in their usual locations.
For smaller images, the horizontal position is established with one of the -L, -C, -R, or -I <indent> arguments, just like PDF_IMAGE. You may instead use the X-pos argument, provided that it is preceded by a Y-pos argument. The values given to -I, Y-pos and X-pos must have a unit of measure appended to them.
Vertical positioning of smaller images requires the Y-pos argument (which is why it precedes X-pos in the order of arguments) otherwise the image will be flush with the top edge of the printer sheet
The positioning of images does not effect the placement of type on doc cover and cover pages.
Tip: The combination of COVERTEXT and COVER_IMAGE make it possible to design covers entirely to your own specifications.
By default, if you give mom a COVER or DOC_COVER directive, she will print the cover or doc cover. In a document that contains sections, articles or chapters formerly treated as ”one-off’s” but now being collated, such behaviour may not be desirable.
Mom lets you selectively enable or disable the generation of covers and/or doc covers with the toggle macros, COVERS and DOC_COVERS. Because they’re toggle macros, simply invoking them by themselves enables automatic cover or doc cover generation, while invoking them with any argument at all (OFF, QUIT, X, etc) disables cover or doc cover generation.
Note: You must place these macros prior to any instance of START. Since they’re ”on” by default, there’s no need to use them if you want covers. However, if you don’t, especially in the kind of scenario described above, the best place to put them (most likely with an OFF, NO, X, etc. argument), is immediately after the first invocation of START. By doing so, you ensure they meet the requirement of preceding all subsequent instances of START.
The default typographic appearance of the items on a doc cover or cover is identical to that of the items in a docheader. (See Docheader description for a description of the defaults.)
COPYRIGHT and MISC, which do not appear in docheaders, have the following default characteristics:
The defaults for the entirety of doc covers and covers, and all the elements thereon, can be changed with control macros whose defaults and arguments are identical to the corresponding Control macros for docheaders (q.v.) The only difference is the name by which you invoke them. Wherever DOCHEADER is used for overall changes, replace it with DOC_COVER or COVER. For part-by-part changes, prepend DOC_COVER_ or COVER_ to the part/parameter.
Thus, to change the overall family, color, leading, quad, and
starting position of a doc cover, you’d do
.DOC_COVER_FAMILY H
.DOC_COVER_COLOR blue
.DOC_COVER_LEAD +2
.DOC_COVER_QUAD L
.DOC_COVER_ADVANCE 3i \" or .DOC_COVER_START_POS 3i
To change the style parameters for selected parts of a cover, you
might do something like this:
.COVER_TITLE_FONT B
.COVER_TITLE_SIZE +4
.COVER_SUBTITLE_FONT I
.COVER_AUTHOR_FONT R
.COVER_AUTHOR_SPACE_BEFORE 6p
.COVER_DOCTYPE_COLOR red
.COVER_MISC_SIZE -1
.COVER_MISC_LEAD 12
.COVER_COPYRIGHT_SIZE -2
.COVER_COPYRIGHT_QUAD L
.COVER_MISC_QUAD R
Note in the above example that _COPYRIGHT_QUAD and _MISC_QUAD set
both the horizontal position on the page and the quad direction,
either L (or LEFT) or R (or RIGHT), and have no corresponding
docheader control macro.
Tip:
As with the docheader control macros, DOC_COVER_ and
COVER_ part/parameter style changes may be
grouped,
for example
.DOC_COVER_TITLE_STYLE \
FAMILY A \
FONT B \
SIZE +4 \
CAPS
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