Thanks, Hans. That is very helpful. I will do some experimenting with \installpagebreakhandler. Best, Alan On Nov 11, 2005, at 10:47 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

Alan Bowen wrote:

...

The following code

\setuphead[chapter][page=yes] \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided] \setuppagenumbering[location={header, middle},state=nomarking] \installpagebreakhandler{last}{} \definehead[Item][title] \setupsectionblock[Item][number=no,page=right] \setuphead[Item][after={\blank [2*big]},alternative=middle,style={\tfa \rm}]

\setuphead[Item][header=high,footer={}] \setupheadertexts[text] [{\sc\ItemTitle}] [\pagenumber] [\pagenumber] [{\it xxxxx}]

produces no header or footer on the first page, just as I want, in a multi-page document. What I am not seeing is why the same code produces a header (�ItemTitle....pagenumber�) when the document is only one page in length.

I realize that I can insert \setupheader[state=high] in the source file of my single-page documents to get what I want, but that would still leave me puzzled.

Any suggestions/explanations would be much appreciated.

this is related to tex's way of breaking pages; when settings change while tex has not yet broken a page, they get lost

bla bla (not enough for a page)

\setupheadertexts[x]

bla bla versus:

bla bla (not enough for a page)

\page \setupheadertexts[x]

bla bla

i try as good as i can to handle this but esp in border cases a user has to force a break before such settings that affect the 'current' of 'next' page; it's just a matter of where/when (settings are expanded. not delayed)

here the problem is in:

\installpagebreakhandler{last}{} if you change this to issue a (one) page break, it will probably work ok

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