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But in short reports, text often is printed only on one side of the paper. Also in short reports, chapters sometimes do not start on new pages, but are printed on the same page as the end of the preceding chapter, after a small amount of vertical whitespace. </p> <p>You can use the <code>@setchapternewpage</code> command with various arguments to specify how TeX should start chapters and whether it should format headers for printing on one or both sides of the paper (single-sided or double-sided printing). </p> <p>Write the <code>@setchapternewpage</code> command at the beginning of a line followed by its argument. For example, you would write the following to cause each chapter to start on a fresh odd-numbered page: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">@setchapternewpage odd </pre></div> <p>You can specify one of three alternatives with the <code>@setchapternewpage</code> command: </p> <dl compact="compact"> <dt><span><code>@setchapternewpage off</code></span></dt> <dd><p>Cause TeX to typeset a new chapter on the same page as the last chapter, after skipping some vertical whitespace. Also, cause TeX to format page headers for single-sided printing. </p> </dd> <dt><span><code>@setchapternewpage on</code></span></dt> <dd><p>Cause TeX to start new chapters on new pages and to format page headers for single-sided printing. This is the form most often used for short reports or personal printing. This is the default. </p> </dd> <dt><span><code>@setchapternewpage odd</code></span></dt> <dd><p>Cause TeX to start new chapters on new, odd-numbered pages (right-handed pages) and to typeset for double-sided printing. This is the form most often used for books and manuals. </p></dd> </dl> <p>Texinfo does not have a <code>@setchapternewpage even</code> command, because there is no printing tradition of starting chapters or books on an even-numbered page. </p> <p>If you don’t like the default headers that <code>@setchapternewpage</code> sets, you can explicit control them with the <code>@headings</code> command. See <a href="_0040headings.html">The <code>@headings</code> Command</a>. </p> <p>At the beginning of a manual or book, pages are not numbered—for example, the title and copyright pages of a book are not numbered. By convention, table of contents and frontmatter pages are numbered with roman numerals and not in sequence with the rest of the document. </p> <p>The <code>@setchapternewpage</code> has no effect in output formats that do not have pages, such as Info and HTML. </p> <p>We recommend not including any <code>@setchapternewpage</code> command in your document source at all, since such desired pagination is not intrinsic to the document. 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