.  From
the point of view of pagination, covers and doc covers are by
default considered &#8221;null&#8221; pages.  If you wish them to
be included in the pagination scheme (even though no page numbers
appear), you must tell mom that&#8217;s what you want with the
macros DOC_COVERS_COUNT_PAGES and/or COVERS_COUNT_PAGES.
</p>

<h3 id="design" class="docs">Designing your own cover pages</h3>

<p>
Finally, if you want to design your own cover page(s), you can
always typeset them (using the
<a href="typesetting