Notes and questions on 432 page book.

[John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>]

My latest project is almost finished. I have a few comments 
and questions. 

The book consists of one part with five unnumbered chapters 
followed by a second part of 101 numbered chapters, and 
some endmatter.  I was unable to make the Context version 
of the TOC to single space these 110 or so chapter entries 
which made the whole TOC longer (more pages) than desired. 
So I threw Eplain into the mix and typeset the TOC only 
using the Eplain macros. If there is a way to single space 
the TOC using the regular Context macros I will be happy to 
eliminate the Eplain, which may solve some of the other 
problems.

The last six pages consist of an order form, a page of text, 
and another order form, all backed up by blank pages for 
six pages total. The order form is created with some 
\framedtext and \starttable trickery. It compiles fine by 
itself but gives errors in the \starttable etc. when 
combined with the main body of the book.  It will also 
coexist with the front matter, so eplain is probably not 
the culprit.  In any case at the  moment I have two correct 
pdfs which I will try to knit together with psmerge or 
something similar.

I used a conventional construction of the job, with a main 
file which calls subordinate files. In this mode I ended up 
with two unwanted blank pages after the index.  If however 
I put the \stoptext statement at the end of the main 
subordinate file the unwanted blank pages disappear.  Here 
is the construction of the main file:
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\input fonts.tex
\input macros.tex
\input part.tex
\starttext
\startfrontmatter
\input half.tex
\input title.tex
{\tfx
\input copy.tex
}
\noheaderandfooterlines
\leftline{\tfb\bf\ss Table of Contents}
\blank[big]
\readtocfile\rm
\page[yes]
\noheaderandfooterlines
\stopfrontmatter
\startbodymatter
\setupwhitespace[medium]
\noheaderandfooterlines
\input body.tex
%\input order.tex       %the last six pages start here
%\input flyer.tex
%\input order.tex
\stopbodymatter
\stoptext
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If I insert a \stoptext statement at the end of the  
body.tex file then I lose the unwanted blank pages. Are 
they a byproduct of  the \stopbodymatter statement?
-- 
John Culleton
Able Typesetters and Indexers
http://wexfordpress.com