Five frontmatter pages is six frontmatter pages, because the main text has to start on a right-hand (recto) page.
(One of my authors asked me in chat what recto and verso were. "The bloody inside and hairy outside of the calf," I replied.)
However, if an editor says there are five frontmatter pages, production will silently and automatically change it to six frontmatter pages; whereas if an editor has five frontmatter pages but says there are six because of that implicitly required blank verso, production may send them a memo asking for whatever text is supposed to go on that sixth frontmatter page.
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Date: 2006-03-23 11:44 pm (UTC)(One of my authors asked me in chat what recto and verso were. "The bloody inside and hairy outside of the calf," I replied.)
However, if an editor says there are five frontmatter pages, production will silently and automatically change it to six frontmatter pages; whereas if an editor has five frontmatter pages but says there are six because of that implicitly required blank verso, production may send them a memo asking for whatever text is supposed to go on that sixth frontmatter page.