From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: A strange request...
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 17:32:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG5iGsCfEKTWjMc5yi0afUfh7GJzGggA_c3S513EWA_peWf0Dg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9CEFB9C7-60C1-40F6-90C7-84C96A095B21@boede.nl>
[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1295 bytes --]
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 5:23 PM Willi Egger <context@boede.nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am siting with a project of making a “dwarsligger”, you know these
> books, printed on bible-thin-printing paper, which are about 12 x 8 cm.
> One opens them while holding them ‘landscape’ with the spine on the top…
>
> Now there is of course a little struggle with the page numbering. The
> reading page consists out of the even page together with the following
> uneven page. It is easy to print on the uneven page a page number, however
> this will result in uneven page numbers only throughout the book.
>
> My question is, whether there is an algorithm to print page numbers as
> follows:
>
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (this is the ordinary numbering)
> 1 2 3 4 5 (this is the requested numbering)
>
> Does someone have an idea how to solve this?
>
> Any hints are most appreciated!
>
> Pickup n>=0, and find q and r such
n = 2q + r, r = 0 or r=1
It's not clear if you have 6 what you want to print (3 or 4 ?)
but playing with that formula can help you .
In many times, it's better to start from zero, so it could be that you
have to translate your input sequence by adding -1
and the output sequence by adding +1 .
>
--
luigi
[-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 1944 bytes --]
[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 493 bytes --]
___________________________________________________________________________________
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://context.aanhet.net
archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/
wiki : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-20 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-20 16:23 Willi Egger
2019-02-20 16:32 ` luigi scarso [this message]
2019-02-20 16:52 ` Wolfgang Schuster
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=CAG5iGsCfEKTWjMc5yi0afUfh7GJzGggA_c3S513EWA_peWf0Dg@mail.gmail.com \
--to=luigi.scarso@gmail.com \
--cc=ntg-context@ntg.nl \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).