Steffen Wolfrum
If I use the \startfrontmatter cum suis then there is a numbered page after the TOC and the last page if even and empty is also numbered. Inside the \startbodymatter \stopbodymatter the emptypages at new chapters are empty pages with an empty header, thus no pagenumber.
except for the last page: see if this solves your problem: \definepagebreak [chapter] [empty,header,right] \setupsectionblock[frontpart][page=no] % not needed? \setupsectionblock[bodypart][page=no] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \starttext \startfrontmatter \completecontent \stopfrontmatter \setuphead [chapter] [page=chapter, ] \startbodymatter \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par} \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par} \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par} \stopbodymatter \stoptext Patrick -- You are your own rainbow!