From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41847 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Schuster" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Booklet hint Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:47:57 +0200 Message-ID: <115224fb0806230047m1c83d96bp40830ebf18f34f8a@mail.gmail.com> References: <83e5fb980806191655g1a069c2aw439edfff6007ac11@mail.gmail.com> <115224fb0806200115v73a4fcfi50888f25693c8481@mail.gmail.com> <83e5fb980806200718m34b81360l6011ba93cbcf7722@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214207408 2917 80.91.229.12 (23 Jun 2008 07:50:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:50:08 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jun 23 09:50:51 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KAgp5-0005UX-EF for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:50:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE8551FC67; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:49:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02704-01-15; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:49:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC6931FBCC; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:48:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4999B1FBC9 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:48:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03231-03 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:48:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.174]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D821FBD0 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:47:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so2638922wfd.5 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:47:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.211.1 with SMTP id j1mr3288131wfg.231.1214207277919; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:47:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.113.9 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:47:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83e5fb980806200718m34b81360l6011ba93cbcf7722@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41847 Archived-At: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Diego Depaoli wrote: > 2008/6/20 Wolfgang Schuster : >>> What kind and size of font you suggest to maximize readability saving paper? >> >> I use myself a size between 8 and 10pt but it depends on the font and >> 8pt could be too small for a few fonts. You could also try to adjust the >> margins to get more text on the page. > Thanks, 9pt was my original choice, but someone complained about this size. > In the meanwhile I got another problem. > The central page of this booklet should contain a text which fits an > A4 sheet so we will have > [A5][A4, landscape] papersize on pages 1-8, 2-7, 3-6 and [A4, > rotated][A4,landscape] in pages 4-5. > My trivial code (obviously) doesn't work and searching wiki and ml > didn't give much help: > > \setuppapersize[A5][A4, landscape] > \setuparranging[2UP] > \startpostponing[4] > \setuppapersize[A4,rotated][A4,landscape] > \input knuth > \page > \stoppostponing > \startext > \dorecurse{50}{\input hawking} > \stoptext > > How can I achieve the desired result? Write the text for the A4 page in a seperate document and include it as a figure. \setupexternalfigures[location={local,global,default}] \setuppapersize[A5][A4, landscape] \setuparranging[2UP] \startpostponing[4] \offset [leftoffset=-\backspace, topoffset=-\dimexpr\topspace+\headerheight\relax] {\clip [width=\paperwidth] {\externalfigure[cow][width=2\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]}} \stoppostponing \startpostponing[5] \noheaderandfooterlines \offset [leftoffset=-\backspace, topoffset=-\dimexpr\topspace+\headerheight\relax] {\clip [hoffset=\paperwidth,width=\paperwidth] {\externalfigure[cow][width=2\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]}} \stoppostponing \starttext \dorecurse{50}{\input hawking} \stoptext Regards Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________