General ⇒ Undefined control sequence \frontmatter

[nitrogen28]

Hi,
I'm new to this Community and LaTeX but maybe someone could help me. I already did some hours research on what the problem could be but somehow I just don't get it.

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper ]{scrreprt}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{setspace}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\DeclareGraphicsRule{.tif}{png}{.png}{`convert #1 `dirname #1`/`basename #1 .tif`.png}

\author{nitroge28, ----}
\title{B......\\ \bigskip
{\.... }}



\date{Jänner 2009}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter

\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter

\chapter{...}
\chapter{...}
\section{..}
\subsection{...}

\subsection{....}
\section{...}
\chapter{..}


\backmatter
\end{document}

Every time I try to implement the \frontmatter and others I get the "Undefined control sequence " error on it.
Can you help?

[Juanjo]

\frontmatter, \mainmatter and \backmatter are only defined in book-like classes, not in article nor in report. Consider if, in your case, it is convenient to move to the book or scrbook class.

[localghost]

Looking at the way you express the date, I suggest to try the naustrian option for the babel package instead of ngerman. For more information about that refer to the manual.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[nitrogen28]

Thanks you a lot!