Thank you, Taco, for the fix *and* the helpful explanation. The file now works (and I can now put this project to bed!) Alan On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 7:44 AM Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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On 30 Sep 2020, at 11:46, jbf wrote:

For some reason that I cannot work out, the recto page header is not appearing in frontmatter sections like Foreword. It is important to note that for this item I am using:

\definehead [foreword] [chapter]…

‘chapter' suppresses the header by default on the first page.

at a guess:

\setuphead[foreword][header=start]

Best wishes, Taco

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No, Taco, that is not resolving the problem. I added your suggestion (header=start) to what I already had for \setuphead for 'foreword': \setuphead   [foreword]   [frontpartlabel=foreword,    conversion=empty,    header=start] but it makes no difference. I am already aware that chapter, on which my foreword definition is based, by default does not give a header on the first page. It is subsequent recto pages that are the problem. So, for example, the Foreword (which starts on a recto page) has three pages. The first, correctly, has no header. The second carries the book title header (called in by [{\hfill\documentvariable{metadata:title}\hfill}][] I presume). But the third and final page does not have the header 'Foreword' which my publisher wants. The same is happening with other frontmatter items (and indeed, appendices too) I have defined, but if I solve the Foreword problem, I will know how to solve those too. When I had this problem with another book I was working on, having 'yes' in \setupsectionblock[frontpart][page=yes] seemed to solve the problem, but I didn't understand why it did! And it does not work in this instance. It may be that something else in my preamble is missing something or indeed preventing something! Any other thoughts on this? I could, offlist, send you my entire preamble (too long for the list I think) just in case something else is causing the problem that I am unaware of, but maybe you or someone else can still identify just what it is that might stopping the 'Foreword' recto header from appearing in this case. Julian On 30/9/20 9:44 pm, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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On 30 Sep 2020, at 11:46, jbf wrote:

For some reason that I cannot work out, the recto page header is not appearing in frontmatter sections like Foreword. It is important to note that for this item I am using:

\definehead [foreword] [chapter]… ‘chapter' suppresses the header by default on the first page.

at a guess:

\setuphead[foreword][header=start]

Best wishes, Taco

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