Added cover information to manual

chapters/manual/manual.tex

@@ -6,6 +6,53 @@ \chapter{Manual}\label{ch:manual}
 \section{Tips and Tricks}
 
 
+\subsection{Full cover page}
+
+\textbf{Important}: most printing services will create their own cover page based
+on the details you send them (title, name, affiliation, ...) and do not supply
+you with all necessary parameters (e.g., thickness of the paper) because these
+differ from machine to machine. Therefore, the generated cover page is only
+indicative and probably not used by your printing server (or even correct).
+
+
+A full cover page (combining front cover, spine and back cover) can be
+generated automatically using the command \texttt{make cover} or \texttt{python3 run.py cover}. This creates a pdf
+\texttt{\$(COVERPDF);} by default this is \texttt{cover.pdf}.
+
+The width of the spine is set by redefining \texttt{\\adsphdspinewidth} (9mm by default).
+
+It can be seen in the provided \texttt{thesis.tex} that all information necessary to
+generate a cover page is contained between two markers
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+    %%% COVER: Settings %%%
+    ...
+    %%% COVER: End settings %%%
+\end{verbatim}
+
+DO NOT REMOVE THESE!! They are used by the Makefile!!
+
+The default front and/or back cover page can be overwritten: 
+
+\begin{itemize}
+    \item create a file \texttt{mycoverpage.tex}
+    \item redefine the commands \texttt{\\makefrontcovergeneral} and \texttt{\\makebackcovergeneral}. For
+          an example and more information, see the provided file \texttt{mycoverpage.tex}.
+\end{itemize}
+
+The cover page in the generated pdf has the following structure:
+
+{\tiny
+\begin{verbatim}
+    <--rbleed--><--backcoverpage--><--lbleed--><--spine width--><--lbleed--><--frontcoverpage--><--rbleed-->
+\end{verbatim}
+}
+
+The default bleed (both lbleed and rbleed) is 7mm. I suggest not changing this
+value unless you know what you are doing ;) The latter can be done by
+redefining \texttt{\\defaultlbleed} and \texttt{\\defaultrbleed} respectively.
+
+
 \subsection{Finetuning the backref package}
 
 Finetuning the backref package (when \textbf{not} using biblatex). Add the