Endnotes and pagenumbering

["Larry Stamm" <larry@larrystamm.com>]

I'm just learning ConTeXt, and am having a couple of problems with a
document right now:

1.  I'm try to set footnotes as endnotes at the end of every chapter,
and have used
	\setupfootnotes[location=text, 
		way=bychapter, 	
		conversion=numbers, 
		rule=on]

in my environment file, and use
	\placefootnotes

at the end of the chapters.  The endnotes are placed where I want, but
there is no horizontal rule between the body text and the endnotes, and
the numbering of the endnotes starts afresh with every new page in the 
chapter instead of being a continuous series.
So I get endnotes numbered like 1,2,1,1,2,3,1,2....  instead of 
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.....

I've tried way=bypart and way=bytext and location=page in the setups,
and it didn't affect the endnote typesetting at all.  How to fix...?

2.  I have been requested to get rid of all blank pages in the final
pdf file, but keep the doublesided layout and numbering.  Currently the
page number is placed on the outside top margin.  Putting
alternative=singlesided in the pagenumbering setup gets rid of the blank
pages but also will put every other page number on the inside when
printed duplex.  So is there a way to set no blank pages but still have
doublesided pagenumbering within ConTeXt, or will I have to do some post
processing of the output file?

Regards,

-- 
Larry Stamm
http://www.larrystamm.com