From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30550 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sanjoy Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: 2DOWN imposition gives blank pages Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:38:33 +0100 Message-ID: References: <44F1B74E.4040506@boede.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156811929 25564 80.91.229.2 (29 Aug 2006 00:38:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:38:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 29 02:38:47 2006 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 ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHrcr-0001mU-I1 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:38:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D482B1FE17; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:38:44 +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 13452-04; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:38:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12C801FE13; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:38:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E5A21FE13 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:38:37 +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 13412-04 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:38:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk (mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk [131.111.48.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id EA4071FE0F for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:38:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.48.158] ident=mail) by mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHrcf-0007L4-82; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:38:33 +0100 Original-Received: from sanjoy by skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1GHrcf-00008V-00; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:38:33 +0100 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:16:30 +0200." <44F1B74E.4040506@boede.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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:30550 Archived-At: Willi Egger wrote: > In your code you try to typeset two A5 portrait beneeth each other > on a A4 landscape, which is impossible. > ... > By the way if you want to typeset A5 on a A4 landscape without > intending to make a booklet, then you can use setuparranging[2SIDE] Thanks for the explanations. Now I understand what's going on, and the wiki page makes more sense too. I'll add to the wiki shortly. A related problem is how to demagnify. Then you could have (1) a high-quality, final mode that generates A4 pages, and (2) a draft, papersaving mode that demagnifies them to A5 and combines them in pairs (a la 2SIDE) into A4. I see how to use modes to do everything except the demagnifying (Context seems, perhaps wisely, to ignore \magnification). -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.