Back Matter Styling

[Rajnesh_D]

Hello,
I’m trying to create a Back Matter section/ or just a page with information such as a Disclaimer, thanks etc.
I find that I can select “Front Matter” in the Compile styling options, but there’s nothing for “Back Matter”. Please see attached Screenshots.
Is there a suggested workaround?
Thanks.
Rajnesh

[kewms]

Those are Section Types in your screenshot. You can create and assign as many as you need. See Section 7.6 in the manual for more information.

[Rajnesh_D]

Thank you, very much.

Rajnesh

[AmberV]

One thing of note is that often the front and back matter will have the same basic Layout requirements (perhaps a page break before each section, and a simple title with no numbering, or maybe just a page break and only the content). This is why some of the templates may not have a separate designation for them.

But, if you ever want to make a section that is different than the rest of the book, perhaps an appendix with its own heading numbering (like A, B, C…), or general back matter, this is how you would do it:

1. Open Project ▸ Project Settings... to Section Types.
2. Click the + button to create a new one, and call it “Back Matter”.
3. Save settings.
4. In the binder, select your “Back Matter” folder, and open the Inspector to the Metadata tab.
5. Locate the Section Type dropdown, and from that, note the second section, where you can set the default section type for all subdocuments of this group. Select “Back Matter” from there. (You could also pick it for the folder itself, but I’ll come back to that; in this particular case it may not be necessary.)

Now this area of the binder will ignore the default section types, and use this one you have picked, instead. It works in a descending fashion, meaning you could pick “Back Matter” for the top level folder, but maybe a subfolder within that could be “Appendix”, and would influence its child documents (but not the ones around it), and so on.

In your case, I note from your screenshots that you have manually assigned the “Front Matter” section type to some of these items. You can tell because some of them are printed in regular font instead of italic. So select them all in the binder, right-click, and from the Section Type submenu, pick “Structure Based”. Now they will defer to defaults—which in this case are being overridden by the “Back Matter” folder. They should all now be printing “Back Matter” in italic font, in the contents tab of the compiler.

Now you just have to assign the Section Layout you want for them.

One last thing of note, I see you have selected the entire “Back Matter” folder. You probably only one to pick one of those subfolders within it, depending on the type of thing you are compiling.