workarounds required for book layouts.

workarounds required for book layouts.

[john Culleton]

For print books the half-title page is backed by a
blank page but the full title page is backed by
the copyright page. The first page of the
bodymatter (chapter 1 in most cases) is recto
faced by a blank verso. 

There are workarounds that obtain this layout.
First   \standardmakeup
command must be modified thus:
\setupmakeup[standard][page=yes, doublesided=no]

Then to get a blank page after the half title
We must insert a dummy page thus:
\startstandardmakeup
\null
\stopstandardmakeup
These two moves put a blank page 
after the half title but forbid it thereafter.

The blank page after \startbodymatter, after
\startbackmatter and after \startappendix is
provided by:
\setupsectionblock[frontpart][page=]
\setupsectionblock[bodypart] [page=]
\setupsectionblock[backpart] [page=]
\setupsectionblock[appendix] [page=]

This combination of workarounds gets the job
done. There may be other combinations that do it
as well.

My suggestion is that all the above setup
commands should be built into context. It takes
some exploration of the mailing list to ferret out
these layout techniques. I have already added
them to my boilerplate macros.tex file that I
insert in every book layout file. But others have
to discover these techniques afresh when they
start using Context for books. 

 




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John Culleton
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