On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:09:39 +0100
Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Am 30.03.2013 um 19:02 schrieb john Culleton <j...@wexfordpress.com>:
> 
> > OK I am trying to be a good boy and use \component instead of
> > \input in MKIV but my problem persists. I have a file called
> > title.tex which should be followed on the next page (title verso)
> > by the file copy.tex. but a blank page occurs between the two. Here
> > is title.tex:
> > 
> > -------------------------------------------
> > 
> > \startstandardmakeup[doublesided=no]
> > \vskip .75in 
> > \midaligned{\tfd\ss\bf Inkscape}
> > \vskip .30in
> > \midaligned{\tfc\ss\bf for}
> > \vskip .30in
> > \midaligned{\tfd\ss\bf  Book Cover Design}
> > \vfil
> > \midaligned{\tfb\ss\bf Open Source Solutions}
> > \vskip .40in
> > \midaligned{\tfb\ss\bf \authorname}
> > \vskip .30in
> > \midaligned{\bf \publisher}
> > \stopstandardmakeup
> > --------------------------------
> > And here is copy.tex:
> > ----------------------------
> > 
> > \startstandardmakeup[page=no]
> > {\bf \booktitle}
> > {\obeylines
> > Copyright \copyright\ 2013 \authorname
> > 
> > All rights reserved.
> > \ISBN
> > \vfil
> > \publisher
> > \street
> > \citystatezip
> > }
> > 
> > \stopstandardmakeup
> > -------------------------------
> > 
> > I have tried \inputting the files and calling the files with
> > \component. Can't get the blank page in between to disappear. 
> 
> 
> Add this line to your environment file:
> 
> \setupmakeup[standard][page=] % default: page=right
> 
> This line is necessary because standardmakeup block do force a right
> page by default.
> 
> Wolfgang
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Thanks. That works. The 2001 manual updated says on page 98 that 
\startstandardmakeup[doublesided=no]
....the front
\stopstandardmakeup
\startstandardmakeup[page=no]
...the back
\stopstandardmakeup 
should have eliminated the blank page. Hence my confusion.

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