Re: Cranky booklet layout.

[Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>]

Hi John,

Coud it be that you simply forgot the "=" after width?

Willi

John R. Culleton wrote:

>First I built a letter-on-tabloid booklet like this:
>
>\definepapersize[tabloid][width=11in,height=17in]
>\setuppapersize[letter][tabloid]
>\setuparranging[2UP,rotated,doublesided]
>\setuplayout[width=7in,location=doublesided,backspace=0.73in,
>topspace=.0in,height=10.3in]
>
>This worked pretty well. For the next iteration I wanted to
>reduce the size by one half, in other words a half letter sheet
>on a letter sheet. I came up with this:
>
>\definepapersize[halff][width 5.5in,height=8.5in]
>\definepapersize[ful][width 8.5in,height=11in]
>\setuppapersize[halff][ful]
>\setuparranging[2UP,rotated,doublesided]
>
>Now no amount of fiddling with \setuplayout parameters seems to
>place the logical pages correctly on the paper. If I use no such parameters
>whatever the entire physical page image seem to slide toward the
>bottom of the piece of paper. As a result the bottom logical page
>slides halfway off the page. 
>
>Can anyone spot an obvious goof? 
>
>John Culleton
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