# Introduction

This sample document discusses the design of Edward Tufte’s books Edward R. Tufte. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 2001. ISBN 0-9613921-4-2; Edward R. Tufte. Envisioning Information. Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1990. ISBN 0-9613921-1-8; Edward R. Tufte. Visual Explanations. Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1997. ISBN 0-9613921-2-6; and Edward R. Tufte. Beautiful Evidence. Graphics Press, LLC, first edition, May 2006. ISBN 0-9613921-7-7 and the use of the tufte-book and tufte-handout document classes.

# The Design of Tufte’s Books

The pages of a book are usually divided into three major sections: the front matter (also called preliminary matter or prelim), the main matter (the core text of the book), and the back matter (or end matter).

The front matter of a book refers to all of the material that comes before the main text. The following table from shows a list of ma- terial that appears in the front matter of The Visual Display of Quan- titative Information, Envisioning Information, Visual Explanations, and Beautiful Evidence along with its page number. Page numbers that appear in parentheses refer to folios that do not have a printed page number (but they are still counted in the page number sequence).

Page Content | Books
VDQI | EI | VE | BE
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Black half title page | (1) | (1) | (1) | (1)