Am 03.12.2008 um 19:43 schrieb Bart C. Wise: > > You tried to enable doublesided documents with \setuplayout > > but the option location control the location of your document > > on the real paper, this option is usefull if you use different > > sizes your document and paper e.g. \setupapersize[A4][A3]. > > > Thanks Wolfgang for your response. I'm having a little trouble > understanding your response, so let me tell you what I think you said.
> \setuplayout should not be used to enable doublesided documents. > Because that option (\setuplayout[location=doublesided] is used to > control the location of your document on real paper. Is that correct? Yes. > If so, then I don't need to use the > \setuplayout[location=doublesided] option for the example. Correct? Yes. > > Doublesided documents are enable with > > \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided], ConTeXt has also > > a special settings "alternative={singlesided,doublesided}", > > this this a normal single sided document with the same margins > > on every page but you can use the "left" and "right" keys for > > \page, \setuplayer etc. > So I did the following with the above code: > % \setuplayout[location=doublesided] > \setuppagenumbering[ > location={footer,middle}, > alternative=doublesided, > option=doublesided, > style=\em\tfx, > way=bytext, > ] > What does the "option=doublesided" do? Do I need it? I'm not sure > where I found that one. \setuppagenumbering has no "option" parameter. > I still have the same problem with the last chapter in a division, > the headers and the footers print out. I also tried with/without the > "option=doublesided". Add, ConTeXt goes by default to the next right page after a sectionblock and insert the header and your pagebreak for the first chapter can't work because you're past the left page after the frontmatter you wanted to be empty. \setupsectionblock[frontpart][page=yes] \setupsectionblock[bodypart] [page=yes] \setupsectionblock[backpart] [page=yes] Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________