From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Imposition and repeating pages
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:11:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110826011139.75cbf9da@marcin-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1108251846460.4688@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
Dnia 2011-08-25, o godz. 18:59:32
Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> napisał(a):
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > imposition in ConTeXt is great, but...
> >
> > 1. When I last used it (MkII), I had to invoke texexec with the
> > --arrange option or something like this. Does it work in an easier
> > way with MkIV? (I mean, I just do context filename and don't care
> > about multiple runs etc.)
>
> In MkIV you don't need to pass --arrange. In one of my projects, I
> have
>
> \setuppapersize[halfletter][letter,landscape]
> \setuparranging[2SIDE]
>
> (where halfletter is a user-defined page) and just calling context
> works.
I thought so; yet another great feature of MkIV!
>
> > 2. I'd like to prepare a cheat sheet of size, say, A6, so I want
> > *the same page* to be repeated 4 times on an A4 sheet. Is there a
> > "canonical" way to do it? (I mean, other than copying-and-pasting,
> > or equivalently, defining a macro and repeating it 4 times?)
>
> You can write a macro that reads a pdf file and outputs each of its
> page four times. For example (untested):
>
> \getfiguredimensions[file]%
> \edef\NOfpages{\noffigurepages}%
> \dorecurse{\NOfpages}
> {\dorecurse{4}
> {\startTEXpage
> \externalfigure[file][page=\recurselevel]%
> \stopTEXpage}}
>
> and then do the arranging.
Thanks - but this is exactly what I do *not* want to do. My first idea
was to do something like
\def\onepageworthofmaterial{<whatever>\page}
\dorecurse{4}{\onepageworthofmaterial}
which is similar, but simpler. I thought that maybe there's another,
"ConTeXt way"... but if not, I'm fine with that.
>
> Aditya
>
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Marcin Borkowski
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-25 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-25 22:40 Marcin Borkowski
2011-08-25 22:59 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-08-25 23:11 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2011-08-25 23:19 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-08-26 4:55 ` Marcin Borkowski
2011-08-26 7:00 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-08-26 11:20 ` Marcin Borkowski
2011-08-25 23:20 ` Hans Hagen
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