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"Doing a quick survey on a few books, I have seen that there is no consensus. I have books (non-fiction, technical books) that have Acknowledgements before and after the Contents page."

https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/10730/do-acknowledgements-have-to-come-after-the-table-of-contents

I like to have dedicatory text before TOC.

I follow

Placement of dedication in `amsbook` strange - why, and how to change it?

and the dedicatory text appears after TOC. It is till before \tableofcontents.

How shall one have dedicatory text before TOC?

This is what I did

\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\title{some text}
\author{some text}

\maketitle


\cleardoublepage
\thispagestyle{empty} \vspace*{13.5pc}


text


\cleardoublepage


\tableofcontents


\setcounter{page}{4}


\include{preface}


\mainmatter

These are a list of packages

\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{fix-cm}
\usepackage{censor}
\usepackage[top = 1.25 in, bottom = 1.25 in, left = 1.25 in, right = 1.25 in]{geometry}
\usepackage[fontsize=14pt]{scrextend}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsfonts,amssymb,amsmath}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{hyphenat}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{breakcites}
\usepackage{accents}
\usepackage{breakurl}
\usepackage{scalefnt}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
Cheerful_Fast
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  • The usual placement of a dedication with amsbook is before the TOC. I've never seen it after the TOC. So it would be most helpful if you would provide a small compilable example that illustrates what's happening. – barbara beeton Sep 25 '22 at 16:49
  • Thank you. I put what I did above. – Cheerful_Fast Sep 25 '22 at 16:54
  • That's not quite enough, I fear. You said that you're using amsbook, so I added \documentclass{amsbook} at the top, \end{document} at the end, and a couple of dummy chapters in between. When run with pdflatex, the TOC comes after the dedication page and before the preface (which I filled in with a dummy). So what I think you must be doing is using a package that changes the behavior, and you haven't shown any packages. (I maintained amsbook for a couple of decades, and wrote the documentation, so I'm familiar with the default behavior.) – barbara beeton Sep 26 '22 at 00:48
  • Thank you very much. I have added a list of packages. – Cheerful_Fast Sep 26 '22 at 09:58
  • I'm unable to reproduce the placement of the TOC before the dedication. There are warning messages about the duplication of page numbers, and indeed, setting the page number to 4 where you do does cause that to happen. Also, there's this warning: "Package pgfplots Warning: running in backwards compatibility mode..." I wouldn't expect scrextend (or any scr package) to be compatible with amsbook. Finally, hyperref should be loaded last. – barbara beeton Sep 26 '22 at 19:04
  • Then what package shall one use to increase the font size? – Cheerful_Fast Sep 29 '22 at 20:43
  • Assuming you mean the size of the dedication text, I wouldn't use a package, but take advantage of the font sizing already available in amsbook: \begingroup \Large text \par \endgroup. Grouping is necessary so that the new size doesn't persist into later material. \par ensures that appropriate baselines are used, if more than one line is involved. Even larger sizes are possible: \LARGE, \huge, and Huge. – barbara beeton Sep 29 '22 at 23:15

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