Specifying the Type of Heading

TeX does not begin to generate page headings for a standard Texinfo file until it reaches the @end titlepage command. Thus, the title and copyright pages are not numbered. The @end titlepage command causes TeX to begin to generate page headings according to a standard format specified by the @setchapternewpage command that precedes the @titlepage section.

There are four possibilities:

No @setchapternewpage command

Cause TeX to specify the single-sided heading format, with chapters on new pages. This is the same as @setchapternewpage on.

@setchapternewpage on

Specify the single-sided heading format, with chapters on new pages.

@setchapternewpage off

Cause TeX to start a new chapter on the same page as the last page of the preceding chapter, after skipping some vertical whitespace. Also cause TeX to typeset for single-sided printing. (You can override the headers format with the @headings double command; see section The @headings Command.)

@setchapternewpage odd

Specify the double-sided heading format, with chapters on new pages.

Texinfo lacks an @setchapternewpage even command.