On Wednesday 03 December 2008 12:09:53 pm Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 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
>

Excellent!  Thanks again for your patience and wealth of knowledge!

Bart