Re: seeking ConTeXt code

["Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen" <gilbert@login-bv.com>]

> I was looking for that section in the Dutch manual, but I don't speak
> Dutch, and I'm not sure where the section on special booklet collation
> is.  I noticed "Pagineren" and "Paginanummers", but I didn't see it
> there.
>
> Is it hard to do?  Basically, I'm interested in taking a document with
> dynamically-generated context (so I won't know beforehand how many
> pages there are) and making it have pages ready for double-sided
> front-and-back printing, as if I ran my LaTeX "[twosided]" document
> through the psutils' psbook and "psnup -n 2".

Don't know what that does, but try this to create a A6 book printed on A4:

% interface=en

\setuppapersize[A6][A4]
\setuparranging[2UP,rotated]
\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]

\setupcolors[status=start]

\setuplayout
  [width=fit,
   height=fit,
   marking=color,
   location=middle]

\starttext
\showframe
First page
\page
Second page
\page
Third page
\stoptext

You could also try to setup A5 on a A4, but this doesn't give you the nice
color-bars, since they reside out of the page boundary.

>
> By the way, I'm excited about ConTeXt!  I didn't really understand
> what it is--a whole new format like plain and LaTeX.  It's very
> coherent, consistent, common-sensical, and _powerful_.

We know :-)

> And lastly, is there a searchable archive of this mailing list?
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Gilbert.