Consider this slightly altered text from a mock-up I did for page headers: % Set up double-sided page numbering, backspace, and margins. \setuppagenumbering[location=footer,alternative=doublesided] % Use a format that does not autonumber chapters. % Put at least the chapter in the heading. % Center the heading and put whitespace between the header and % the chapter heading. \setupheadertexts[chapter][] \setuphead[chapter][page=right,after={\blank[2*big]},alternative=middle] \starttext \language[en] \startfrontmatter \setuppagenumbering[conversion=romannumerals] \startstandardmakeup \midaligned{\tfc \cap{Title}} \blank[small] \midaligned{\cap{Subtitle}} \vfill \stopstandardmakeup \startstandardmakeup[doublesided=no] \midaligned{\tfd \cap{Big Title}} \blank[medium] \midaligned{\tfc \cap{Subtitle}} \vfill \stopstandardmakeup \startstandardmakeup[page=no] \vfill Indicia Page \stopstandardmakeup \setuppagenumber[number=5] \setupfooter[state=empty] \setupheader[state=empty,high,nomarking] \completecontent[alternative=c] \chapter{Publisher's Introduction} \setupheader[state=empty] . . . \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \def\HeadTitle#1#2% {\hbox to \hsize {\hfil{#2}\hfil}} \setuphead[chapter][command=\HeadTitle] \setuppagenumbering[conversion=numbers] \setuppagenumber[number=1] \chapter{Introduction} \setupheadertexts[chapter][Basic Concepts] \setupheader[state=empty] \stopbodymatter On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 13:31 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
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Subject: chapter page on right. Date: Tuesday 08 July 2008 From: John Culleton
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users I have set up the \chapter command thus; \setuphead[chapter][page=right,style={\nimbua},header=high] ....where nimbua is a font.
The chapter head appears on a recto (odd numbered) page as expected but the verso blank page inserted where necessary before the chapter head has a running header. It should be blank. I can kludge this up with a wrapper macro containing \ifodd\pageno etc. but it seems there should be a more Contextish way to handle it.