Re: more folds to bind a book

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 08:03 PM 2/2/2002 +0100, Willi Egger wrote:
>Hi Lukas,
>
> > I need to print a book for binding per 5 pieces of paper. It means I need
> > to translate my doubleside document for booklets of 5 papers.
> > I'm using the 2UP parameter in arranging but it just makes the book of one
> > booklet. How do I split it?
> > Thank you.
> >
> > lukas
>
>With the current possibilities within CONTEXT you can not print 5 times 4
>pages per sheet i.e. sections of 20 pages. - You will have to develop this
>scheme yourself. - Please have a look at the file page-imp.tex. There are
>already quite a number of page imposition schemes. - Is there a specific
>reason to make sections of 20 pages? - In general one would prefere to make
>sections of 16 or 32 pages. The latter impositions schemes are already in
>place.
>
>When I developped some of them, I was advised to put such new definitions in
>the file cont-new.tex, because this file is always loaded.

if new ones are needed, i suggest that the two of you work them out (willy: 
i suppose that you took a look in the imposition module, i cleaned up the 
spec format, should be more compact now]

Hans

PS. Willy and i have plans to write an imposition manual later this year.
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