Hi Hans, why had you made the decision to change between single- and doublesided documents with the \setupagenumbering command and not with \setuplayout where one yould expect such a setup? I think the following quote from Steffen Wolfrum answers my question: Sometimes ConTeXt's syntax looks kind of "female" to me: It certainly has an inner logic, but this is far more ... rich and varied as my single-minded, male structured mind would expect -) Wolfgang