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Patrick Gundlach wrote:
Guy Worthington wrote
How can I get both a blank page inserted whenever a chapter finishes on an odd page, and also suppress my header on the first page of a chapter.
before={\ifodd\realpageno\else\page[empty]\noheaderandfooterlines\fi},
Thanks Patrick, the next specification is that I have a footer. ----- % output=pdftex \definetext[chapter][footer][pagenumber] % page on which chapters begin \setuphead [chapter] [page=right, header=empty, footer=chapter, % before={\page\ifodd\realpageno\else\page[empty]\fi\page[right]}, ] \setupheadertexts [chapter] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \starttext \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \stoptext -----
\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, option=doublesided]
what is this option=...?
is used to produce an even number of pages, so if you count ever page in the book then the number of recto and verso pages are exactly equal.