Documentation about how to set up the Front Matter

Question

I seem at a loss as to how to use the Peripherals tab and the Front Matter tab under View & Edit. The auto generated Front Matter has \periph Title Page|id="title" and \periph Publication Data|id="pubdata" etc. But the id="xxxx" part of these statements make the run hang. It seems to be looking for "title" and "pubdata" etc somewhere. But where? Sorry for a dumb question, but I just can't find the answer. Slide 297 mentions it, but doesn't tell me enough to fix the problem. It seems like there is some implied information I am missing here.    

Answer 1

I wonder if this kind of documentation is helpful. Eventually it will make its way to the How to: section on the main website, with a lot more user-friendly images etc.

Answer 2

You may have triggered a parser bug, although I don't know of any in that area. Try upgrading to the latest and see if things calm down. If not, please send an archive for debugging.