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`@titlepage'
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  Start the material for the title page and following copyright page
with `@titlepage' on a line by itself and end it with `@end titlepage'
on a line by itself.

  The `@end titlepage' command starts a new page and turns on page
numbering.  (Note: Page Headings, for details about how to
generate page headings.)  All the material that you want to appear on
unnumbered pages should be put between the `@titlepage' and `@end
titlepage' commands.  You can force the table of contents to appear
there with the `@setcontentsaftertitlepage' command (Note: Contents).

  By using the `@page' command you can force a page break within the
region delineated by the `@titlepage' and `@end titlepage' commands and
thereby create more than one unnumbered page.  This is how the
copyright page is produced.  (The `@titlepage' command might perhaps
have been better named the `@titleandadditionalpages' command, but that
would have been rather long!)

  When you write a manual about a computer program, you should write the
version of the program to which the manual applies on the title page.
If the manual changes more frequently than the program or is independent
of it, you should also include an edition number(1) (Note:
titlepage-Footnote-1) for the manual.  This helps readers keep track
of which manual is for which version of the program.  (The `Top' node
should also contain this information; see Note: `@top'.)

  Texinfo provides two main methods for creating a title page.  One
method uses the `@titlefont', `@sp', and `@center' commands to generate
a title page in which the words on the page are centered.

  The second method uses the `@title', `@subtitle', and `@author'
commands to create a title page with black rules under the title and
author lines and the subtitle text set flush to the right hand side of
the page.  With this method, you do not specify any of the actual
formatting of the title page.  You specify the text you want, and
Texinfo does the formatting.

  You may use either method, or you may combine them; see the examples
in the sections below.

  For extremely simple applications, and for the bastard title page in
traditional book front matter, Texinfo also provides a command
`@shorttitlepage' which takes a single argument as the title.  The
argument is typeset on a page by itself and followed by a blank page.