Thank you, Taco, for the fix *and* the helpful explanation.

The file now works (and I can now put this project to bed!)

Alan

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 7:44 AM Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:

>
>
> > On 30 Sep 2020, at 11:46, jbf <roma83537@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > For some reason that I cannot work out, the recto page header is not
> appearing in frontmatter sections like Foreword. It is important to note
> that for this item I am using:
> >
> > \definehead
> >   [foreword] [chapter]…
>
> ‘chapter' suppresses the header by default on the first page.
>
> at a guess:
>
>   \setuphead[foreword][header=start]
>
> Best wishes,
> Taco
>
>
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