Hi, The 2SIDE arrangment is not intended for a doublesided layout. If the layout is single sided you can easily add an empty page with \strut\page. This impositionscheme is only for arranging 2 pages on a suitable paper, the pages remain in their normal sequence. that is, there is no booklet! In order to have an empty page you can stop pagenumbering first and start numbering on the second page (see below). The 2UP arrangement is suitable for a doublesided layout, pages are arranged in such a way, that you can fold a booklet. Whether or not the left part of the paper-sheet remains blank depends on the number of pages to be arranged. This method uses a lot of paper because a chapter will allways start on an odd page, i.e. on the right-half of the paper. Otherwise you can use a singlesided layout with 2UP and in this case chapters will also start on "odd" pages. This is the most compact way of arranging 2 pages on one sheet of paper, ending up still with a booklet. Tests were performed with the following code: \setuppapersize[A5,portrait][A4,landscape]% % \setuparranging [2*8,doublesided] \setuparranging[2SIDE]%not intended for a duoblesided layout. %\setuparranging[2UP]% can be used with doublesided layout, chapters start allways on an odd page. % can be used with a singlesided layout, chapters will start also on even pages, keep in mind % that the imposition takes place after typesetting. In the case of a singlesides layout, all pages % are "odd". \setuplayout [location=middle] \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,marginedge},state=start]%,alternative=doublesided \starttext \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \strut\page \setuppagenumbering[state=start] \dostepwiserecurse{1}{20}{1}{% \startalignment[middle] \chapter{Chapter title} \vfil This is {\bfd \recurselevel} \input zapf \stopalignment \vfil \page} \stoptext Willi Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
I've mostly understood arranging but I cannot figure out how to make 2SIDE place a blank page (page 0, to not affect the page numbering) on the left half of the first arranged sheet and carry on as normal. To illustrate, where the enclosed numbers are the unarranged numbers:
p.1: | |1| p.2: |2|3| p.3: |4|5|
That way each arranged sheet (p.1,2, or 3) will be a spread from the final book, plus one saves paper.
Gerben Wierda (12 March 2005) asked this question on the list, but I did not see an answer so perhaps it is difficult. I looked at the code in page-imp.tex and had hopes for \ejectdummypage but my experments didn't work.
Also my hopes for a cheap hack also were dashed. I tried inserting a \null\page[blank] before the \chapter{First chapter}. But with doublesided pagenumbering, the chapter starts only on an odd page, so the single blank page turns into two blank pages.
-Sanjoy
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