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From: Willi Egger <context@boede.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to arrange pages so that they fall alternating on two sides of the sheet?
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:42:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EB0D19BE-852B-41F5-8690-C53BE6EAB9E0@boede.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121106230927.230b1411@aga-netbook>

Hi,

If I understand  your request correctly then there is an impositioning scheme for this already in place:

\setuparranging[1*4]	%section: one sheet 1 x 4 pages = 4 pages single sided!

This scheme gives 4 pages on a A4.

Kind regards

Willi
On Nov 6, 2012, at 11:09 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have something like this:
> 
> \definepapersize[thin][width=210mm,height=74.25mm]
> \setuppapersize[thin][A4]
> \setuppaper[nx=1,ny=4]
> \setuplayout[topspace=1.5cm,backspace=1.5cm,
>  header=0mm,footer=0mm,
>  width=middle,height=middle]
> \setuparranging[XY]
> 
> I'd like to have pages 1, 3, 5, 7 on one side of the A4 sheet, and 2,
> 4, 6, 8 on the other one.  In other words, there should be two
> (A4-sized) pages in the pdf.  (My use case is a short quiz for my wife's
> students - she wants to save paper;).)
> 
> Bonus points for making pages 5-8 *identical* to pages 1-4, so that:
> 
> on pages 1-2 (top of the A4 sheet, both sides) there is one problem set;
> on pages 3-4 (just below the previous one) there is another;
> on pages 5-6 (yet below) the first problem set is repeated;
> on pages 7-8 (bottom) the second one gets repeated again.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> -- 
> Marcin Borkowski
> http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
> Adam Mickiewicz University
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      reply	other threads:[~2012-11-19 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-06 22:09 Marcin Borkowski
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