I'm trying to find a way to have a full page "title" type page before the start of every chapter. However, the chapter name will be on the first page of the chapter as well. The title text will be different on the full title page before each chapter and I don't really want the title page to affect the chapter page numbers or anything like that. Here is an example of what I'm trying to accomplish. Just a simple page with a two or three line title (depends on the chapter name).
The left image is what I'm looking for. I have the first page of each chapter setup already. and both of these are right pages. excuse the mockup image, i failed to include a blank page between them.
And to be clear, this title page would be a right facing page, un numbered. So blank page << >> title page, blank page << >> chapter start...
% UNIVERSAL SETTINGS
\documentclass[statementpaper,10pt,twoside,onecolumn,openright,extrafontsizes]{memoir} % set page properties
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % set displayable characters
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[osf]{Alegreya,AlegreyaSans} % set font face
\usepackage{canoniclayout} % canonical margins, breaks page number?
\usepackage{subfiles} % to pull chapter files in from other sub files
\usepackage{lipsum}
% INDEX SETTINGS
% run "makeindex index_name.idx -s style.ist" in terminal to generate each correct index files before typesetting
\makeindex[genesis]
\makeindex[exodus]
\makeindex[leviticus]
% TABLE OF CONTENTS SETTINGS
\renewcommand{\cftchapterdotsep}{\cftdotsep}% Chapters should use dots in TOC
%\usepackage{patchcmd} % set width
%\makeatletter % set width
%\patchcommand\@starttoc{\begin{quote}}{\end{quote}} % set width
%\makeatother % set width
% CHAPTER SETTINGS
\renewcommand*{\printchaptername}{\centering}
\renewcommand*{\printchapternonum}{\centering}
% PAGE HEADER SETTINGS
\nouppercaseheads % prevent all uppercase header titles
\makeatletter % put chapter title on both pages
\createmark{chapter}{both}{shownumber}{\@chapapp\ }{. \ } % put chapter title on both pages
\makeatother % put chapter title on both pages
% PARAPGRAPH SETTINGS
\usepackage{ragged2e} % indent paragraphs using ragged right
\setlength{\RaggedRightParindent}{\parindent} % indent paragraphs with ragged right
\raggedbottom % avoid paragraph spacing issues but allow bottom ragged lines
\usepackage{lettrine} % for drop caps and awesome chapter beginnings
\linespread{1.2} % line-height
\renewcommand{\chapternumberline}[1]{}% Gobble chapter number in ToC
\renewcommand{\cftchapterdotsep}{\cftdotsep}% Chapter dots in ToC
% TITLE PAGE FORMATTING
% creates the title page and printed title text
\newlength\drop
\newcommand*{\titleMain}{%
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begingroup% Gentle Madness
\drop = 0.1\textheight
\vspace*{\baselineskip}
\vfill
\hbox{%
%\hspace*{0.2\textwidth}%
%\rule{1pt}{\dimexpr\textheight-28pt\relax}%
%\hspace*{0.05\textwidth}%
\parbox[b]{1.0\textwidth}{
\vbox{%
\vspace{\drop}
\centering{\noindent\HUGE\bfseries Holy Bible}\\[2\baselineskip]
{\Large King James Version}\\[.37\baselineskip]
{\Large\itshape Authorized Edition}
\vspace{0.5\textheight}
%{\noindent The Publisher}\\[\baselineskip]
}% end of vbox
}% end of parbox
}% end of hbox
\vfill
\null
\endgroup}
% BEGIN THE DOCUMENT
\begin{document}
\titleMain % print title page created in preamble
\cleardoublepage % blank page after title and TOC page
% TABLE OF CONTENTS
\begin{center} % center the TOC title text
\tableofcontents* % print table of contents page
\end{center}
\thispagestyle{empty} % hide page number header on TOC page
% BEGIN MAIN CONTENT MATTER
\cleardoublepage % restart page numbers
\RaggedRight % apply ragged right paragraph format
\pagenumbering{arabic} % change page numbering to numbers
\subfile{tex/genesis} % print text from chapter files
\subfile{tex/exodus}
\subfile{tex/leviticus}
% BEGING BACK CONTENT MATTER
\backmatter
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\textit {Index of Chapters}} % for consolidating index in TOC
{\def\addcontentsline#1#2#3{} % for consolidating index in TOC
% INDEX
\clearpage
% \renewcommand{\preindexhook}{}
% \twocolindex
\renewcommand{\indexname}{Genesis}
\printindex[genesis]
\renewcommand{\indexname}{Exodus}
\printindex[exodus]
\renewcommand{\indexname}{Leviticus}
\printindex[leviticus]
\end{document}
% END OF DOCUMENT
And the subfile.
\begin{document}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Genesis} % manually adds TOC entry if you hide title on first page of chapter
\markboth{Genesis}{Genesis} % Correct headers after manually setting TOC
\chapter*{Genesis} % add asterisk after "chapter" and remove "Gensis" from brackets to hide chapter title on first page of chapter
\index[genesis]{Chapter 1}\lettrine[lines=3]{N}{}ow these \lipsum
\index[genesis]{Chapter 2} \lipsum
\index[genesis]{Chapter 3} \lipsum
\end{document}
center
environment around the table of contents. – cfr Sep 12 '17 at 2:29Chapter Name
be the same asMainTitle
? – Andreas Sep 12 '17 at 10:28