Hi Aditya,

Am 12.01.19 um 20:11 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:

On Sat, 12 Jan 2019, Jan U. Hasecke wrote:

Hi all,

in my document \startchapter and \starttitle starts a new chapter on the
right (odd) page. So sometimes, there is a blank even page just before a
new chapter.

I would like to manipulate this blank even page.

There are several things I would like to do, eg. having no headers and
footers, setting the background color to a named color, placing an image
or some graphics on the page.

Is there a way to define such a page, name it and call it in
\startchapter so that it is placed on the left side.

See https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/457428/323

Thanks a lot, but I wasn't looking for a way to just delete page numbers
but to style the empty page in arbitrary ways.

Maybe it is better to do this manually.

I would let chapter open on even pages too and just insert a styled page
by hand.

juh

I place an epigraph on verso page before a few chapters with the following:

\definehead[ChapterEpigraph][title]
\setuphead [ChapterEpigraph][
                      page={yes,left},
                      insidesection=\vfill,
                      aftersection={\vfill\vfill},
                      header=empty,
                      placehead=no,
                     ]

%% The following always creates a verso page if there is an
%%   epigraph to set or not.

\startsetups chapter:epigraph
    \doifelsebuffer{ChapterEpigraph}
        {\page[yes,header,footer,left]
         \dontleavehmode
         \vfill
         \getbuffer   [ChapterEpigraph]
         \resetbuffer [ChapterEpigraph]
         \vfill
         \vfill
        }
        {\page[yes,header,footer,left]}
    \page[yes,header,footer,right]
\stopsetups

<...>

\stopchapter%   end previous chapter

\startChapterEpigraph% no epigraph on next

\stopChapterEpigraph

\startchapter[reference={cha:no-epigraph-chapter},
              title={Chapter with no epigraph}]
<...>

\stopchapter%

\startChapterEpigraph

<stuff to put in epigraph here>

\stopChapterEpigraph

\startchapter[reference={cha:next-chapter},
              title={Chapter with epigraph}]

<...>

I am not sure where I got the hints for this. I haven't revisited it for a while, and it does look like there is some redundant use of \vfill, but it worked for me. You may be able to build on it.