changing title page layout

[Armin Goralczyk]

Hi list

For a thesis I want to modify the title page layout (\thanks alone
doesn't do the job) and insert some more pages right after it and
before the TOC (for more elaborate acknowledgments, etc). Questions:

1) Does the titlepage environment suffice, i.e.,[1] can I insert
subsequent pages and page numbering will be correct (e.g. TOC
starting not at (iii) but (iv) when adding two more pages)?

2) Is there a documentation for the titlepage environment available
on-line (I googled but didn't find anything, no FAQ entry so far)?
Is it covered in any book (Latex Companion only mentions it,
nothing more)? Maybe Lamport's Latex... (I thought about buying it
anyway)?

3) Is there another/better solution to modify title page layout and
insert more pages before TOC and keep correct page numbering?

Thanks for any help.
-- Armin Goralczyk

[1] There was a thread about the correct punctuation of id est = that
is. This is the right way to do it, at least for the ``Chicago Manual
of style''.

[Martin Heller]

Post by Armin Goralczyk
3) Is there another/better solution to modify title page layout and
insert more pages before TOC and keep correct page numbering?

The memoir documentclass provides a titlingpage environment and
several hooks for changing the output of \maketitle. This is
documented in the memoir manual 'memman'. The pagenumbering can
be changed with \addtocounter.