Almost there. But if I add \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided] to the example, there is a blank page before the makeup page, and an unnumbered blank page after. If I add doublesided=no to the \setupmakeup options, the unnumbered blank page is not there, but there is still a blank page before. It is seemingly forcing a right-hand page for some reason I do not understand. Mike

On Mar 28, 2022, at 6:37 PM, śrīrāma via ntg-context wrote:

On Tuesday, March 29, 2022 4:18 AM Michael Urban via ntg-context wrote:

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Is there a simple way to accomplish this?

I suppose you need 'postponing'. See https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/startpostponing [One can specify a page explicitly, or, more conveniently, an offset]

First, we define a makeup and enable header, footer and page for it. Then we can put the float inside the makeup and wrap it with \start...\stoppostponing. Here is a MWE:

%%% start example \setupexternalfigures[location=default] \definemakeup [FloatPage] \setupmakeup [FloatPage] [headerstate=normal, pagestate=start, align=middle, footerstate=normal]

\setupheadertexts[] \setupheadertexts[chapter][\date] \setupfootertexts[pagenumber]

\starttext \startchapter [title={Chapter title}] \startpostponing[+1] \startFloatPagemakeup \placefigure{a floating cow}{\externalfigure[cow]} \stopFloatPagemakeup \stoppostponing \dorecurse{6}{\samplefile{knuth}} \blank

\dorecurse{2}{\samplefile{tufte}} \stopchapter \stoptext %%% stop example

Of course, I think some manual hand-tuning is required (in the final stages of the document) in deciding the right place to put the postponing block and in deciding what offset is best.

Sreeram

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On 3/30/2022 11:41 PM, Michael Urban via ntg-context wrote:

Almost there. But if I add \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided] to the example, there is a blank page before the makeup page, and an unnumbered blank page after. If I add doublesided=no to the \setupmakeup options, the unnumbered blank page is not there, but there is still a blank page before. It is seemingly forcing a right-hand page for some reason I do not understand. does adding page=no help?

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