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Hello, I just read a post on comp.text.tex asking how to make "This page intentionally left blank" in LaTeX. There, it's a matter of redefining the \cleardoublepage comman; I assumed that ConTeXt had some kind of built-in hook to do that, but I found that it is not so; the command that ejects a blank page when needed is \ejectdummypage, but there is no way to configure it to put something on that page. Could the page ejecting mechanism be slightly improved, with a \setupdummypage[...] command that defines what has to be done with the dummy pages? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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At 03:35 PM 10/22/2002 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
Hello,
I just read a post on comp.text.tex asking how to make "This page intentionally left blank" in LaTeX. There, it's a matter of redefining the \cleardoublepage comman; I assumed that ConTeXt had some kind of built-in hook to do that, but I found that it is not so; the command that ejects a blank page when needed is \ejectdummypage, but there is no way to configure it to put something on that page. Could the page ejecting mechanism be slightly improved, with a \setupdummypage[...] command that defines what has to be done with the dummy pages?
\page[blank] : no ornaments \page[empty] : empty page, no page break first \page[makeup] : also empty, forces a page break first so, \page[yes,empty] is first flushing the current page, and then issuing an empty one so, what you want in addition is something \startstandardmakeup[doublesided=no] \labeltext{blankpage} \stopstandardmakeup or so, but then accessible by keyword? (\page[makeup,text] or so) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Tuesday, October 22, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote: HH> At 03:35 PM 10/22/2002 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
Hello,
I just read a post on comp.text.tex asking how to make "This page intentionally left blank" in LaTeX. There, it's a matter of redefining the \cleardoublepage comman; I assumed that ConTeXt had some kind of built-in hook to do that, but I found that it is not so; the command that ejects a blank page when needed is \ejectdummypage, but there is no way to configure it to put something on that page. Could the page ejecting mechanism be slightly improved, with a \setupdummypage[...] command that defines what has to be done with the dummy pages?
HH> \page[blank] : no ornaments HH> \page[empty] : empty page, no page break first HH> \page[makeup] : also empty, forces a page break first HH> so, HH> \page[yes,empty] HH> is first flushing the current page, and then issuing an empty one HH> so, what you want in addition is something HH> \startstandardmakeup[doublesided=no] HH> \labeltext{blankpage} HH> \stopstandardmakeup HH> or so, but then accessible by keyword? (\page[makeup,text] or so) No, I was thinking more of events like \page[odd] which flushes the current page if we are on an even page, but flushes the current page AND addes a blank even page. This blank even page cannot be "configured" to be nonblank, and that's what I want. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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