Hello List! It is a long time ago, that I have written the last mail to you. Thank you Taco so much, because for the new example of the Recent changes from 17.January 2019. Because: Modyfying the page before a chapter is something, that i can need. I mean this one: % next five lines just to show the effect on this wiki \setuppapersize[A8][A5,landscape] \setuppaper[nx=4, ny=2] \setuplayout[page][location=middle, marking=on] \setuparranging [XY] \setupbodyfont[6pt] % actual example starts here \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided] \startsetups [chapter:before] \doifoddpageelse {} {\pushbackground[page] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=gray] \page[right] \popbackground} \stopsetups \setuphead [chapter] [page=yes, before=\directsetup{chapter:before}] \starttext \startchapter[title={Knuth}] \dorecurse{2}{\samplefile{knuth}} \stopchapter \startchapter[title={Ward}] \dorecurse{1}{\samplefile{ward}} \stopchapter \startchapter[title={Zapf}] \dorecurse{2}{\samplefile{zapf}} \stopchapter \stoptext I have a question: how can I have a empty page before the next chapter without a page number? Do I have to write: \page =empty. ? Ursula Hermann