On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:10, Willi Egger
Here is what I interpreted from your mail. May be it answers the first question. Using setups does normally help in these cases.
It does sort out the font problem - turns out I was almost there, except that my TOC insisted on being in Arial (and *really* ugly as it is set up for Candara). Your alternative sorts out that problem, I tested with \placecontent \chapter{This is chapter 1} \dorecurse{3} {\input tufte \page} \chapter{This is chapter 2} \dorecurse{3} {\input tufte \page} Even on yours the back cover ends up on the next-to-last page (the last page being empty), so problem 2 persists. In a real pinch I can probably fiddle with it in Acrobat (or pdfarrange or something). Thank you, Mari