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Originally Posted by Hitch
Well, I meant prologue, not other frontmatter.
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I don't know what kind of prologue would be appropriate before the TOC myself. Unless this is some attempt to to an ebook version of the cold open.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
It's not documented, like in the Publishing Guidelines, but it's a very real thing.
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How Kafkaesque. Unwritten yet firmly applied rules you have to deduce.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
That prohibition, against putting the TOC at the back of the book, however, has been in place for years.
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That's a relief. I never did it myself, as I do printed books from doc to press and then do ebooks after, mirroring the book layout as much as sensible.
I do recall seeing advocacy for TOC at back in some blogs a while ago.