The following code \setuphead[chapter][page=yes] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \setuppagenumbering[location={header, middle},state=nomarking] \installpagebreakhandler{last}{} \definehead[Item][title] \setupsectionblock[Item][number=no,page=right] \setuphead[Item][after={\blank[2*big]},alternative=middle,style={\tfa \rm}] \setuphead[Item][header=high,footer={}] \setupheadertexts[text] [{\sc\ItemTitle}] [\pagenumber] [\pagenumber] [{\it xxxxx}] produces no header or footer on the first page, just as I want, in a multi-page document. What I am not seeing is why the same code produces a header (“ItemTitle....pagenumber”) when the document is only one page in length. I realize that I can insert \setupheader[state=high] in the source file of my single-page documents to get what I want, but that would still leave me puzzled. Any suggestions/explanations would be much appreciated. Alan