Cfrgtkky

I am using the koma package to typeset my thesis and was wondering if there is something like "lowerextratitleback", i.e. the analog of lowertitleback for the extra title page which can be set using extratitle, to put text on the backside of the extra titlepage?

Now there is. :-) Note that extratitleback will only be typeset if extratitle isn't empty and twoside is enabled. This works for the titlepage as well as for the notitlepage class option. To patch maketitle (which features an optional argument in KOMA-Script) I used the trick described by Martin Scharrer in this answer.

EDIT: Replaced extratitleback with upperextratitleback and lowerextratitleback. Note that -- corresponding to KOMA-Scripts implementation of uppertitleback and lowertitleback -- the arguments of the new commands are typeset in minipages, so the caveats for this environment apply (e.g., a parindent of 0pt).

listfiles



documentclass{scrbook}



usepackage{etoolbox}



makeatletter

newcommand*{@upperextratitleback}{}%

newcommand{upperextratitleback}[1]{gdef@upperextratitleback{%

    #1%

}}

newcommand*{@lowerextratitleback}{}%

newcommand{lowerextratitleback}[1]{gdef@lowerextratitleback{%

    #1%

}}

newcommand*{@makeextratitleback}{%

  if@twoside

    noindent

    begin{minipage}[t]{textwidth}

      @upperextratitleback

    end{minipage}

    par

    vfill

    noindent

    begin{minipage}[b]{textwidth}

      @lowerextratitleback

    end{minipage}

    next@tpage

  fi

}

expandafterpatchcmdcsnamestringmaketitleendcsname{%

  cleardoubleemptypage

}{%

  @makeextratitleback

}{}{}

patchcmd{@maketitle}{%

  if@twosidenullnext@tpagefi

}{%

  @makeextratitleback

}{}{}

makeatother



extratitle{Extratitle}

upperextratitleback{Upperextratitleback}

lowerextratitleback{Lowerextratitleback}

title{Title}

author{Author}

uppertitleback{Uppertitleback}

lowertitleback{Lowertitleback}



begin{document}



maketitle



end{document}

EDIT: Here's my file list produced by adding listfiles at the start of the example. Check if you're using the same versions.

 *File List*

 scrbook.cls    2011/06/16 v3.09a KOMA-Script document class (book)

scrkbase.sty    2011/06/16 v3.09a KOMA-Script package (KOMA-Script-dependent ba

sics and keyval usage)

 scrbase.sty    2011/06/16 v3.09a KOMA-Script package (KOMA-Script-independent 

basics and keyval usage)

  keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)

scrlfile.sty    2011/03/09 v3.09 KOMA-Script package (loading files)

tocbasic.sty    2011/05/30 v3.09a KOMA-Script package (handling toc-files)

scrsize11pt.clo    2011/06/16 v3.09a KOMA-Script font size class option (11pt)

typearea.sty    2011/06/16 v3.09a KOMA-Script package (type area)

etoolbox.sty    2011/01/03 v2.1 e-TeX tools for LaTeX

    etex.sty    1998/03/26 v2.0 eTeX basic definition package (PEB)

 ***********

Since KOMA-Script 3.25, there has been a frontispiece command that adds a page to the verso of extratitle. This normally adds content to the top of the page without extra formatting, but one can add it to the foot using the minipage environment from the earlier answer:

documentclass{scrbook}



begin{document}



extratitle{My book}



frontispiece{%

    begin{minipage}[t]{textwidth}

      Upper extratitle text

    end{minipage}

    vfill

    begin{minipage}[b]{textwidth}

      Lower extratitle text

    end{minipage}

}



title{My Book}

subtitle{An Experiment}

author{Author}

date{2019}

publishers{StackExchange}



uppertitleback{Upper title page text}



lowertitleback{Lower title page text}



dedication{To all StackExchangers}



maketitle



end{document}

I know this answer is a bit late, but it might help people who, like me, ended up here after a bit of searching.

I'm using KOMA to typeset a book for the first time. It's very impressive but I needed a page on the verso of the halftitle to put the author's 'also bys'. As noted above the command extratitleback doesn't exist although it probably ought to.

I couldn't get lockstep's example to work either and I'm not smart enough to work out what is going wrong. I'm using TeXworks 0.6.1 under Windows 7.

However, there is a much simpler solution. It's just a question of using maketitle twice.

(If there isn't a copyright page then insert a uppertitleback{} before the second maketitle otherwise there will be another page of also buys.)

documentclass{scrbook}



usepackage{lipsum}



begin{document}



frontmatter



title{a short story book}

author{}

date{}

uppertitleback{centering rmfamily scshape also by a n author\

medskip

normalfont A N Other Of My Books\

A N Other Of My Books\



}

maketitle[1]



title{A Short Story Book}

author{A. N. Author}

date{}

publishers{A N Press}

uppertitleback{Copyright  Page}

dedication{emph{to the totally wonderful people in my life}}



maketitle[3]



mainmatter



chapter{First Story}



lipsum[1]



end{document}