Re: Imposition and repeating pages

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Marcin Borkowski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> imposition in ConTeXt is great, but...
>
> 1. When I last used it (MkII), I had to invoke texexec with the
> --arrange option or something like this.  Does it work in an easier way
> with MkIV?  (I mean, I just do context filename and don't care about
> multiple runs etc.)

In MkIV you don't need to pass --arrange. In one of my projects, I have

   \setuppapersize[halfletter][letter,landscape]
   \setuparranging[2SIDE]

(where halfletter is a user-defined page) and just calling context works.

> 2. I'd like to prepare a cheat sheet of size, say, A6, so I want *the
> same page* to be repeated 4 times on an A4 sheet.  Is there a
> "canonical" way to do it?  (I mean, other than copying-and-pasting, or
> equivalently, defining a macro and repeating it 4 times?)

You can write a macro that reads a pdf file and outputs each of its page 
four times. For example (untested):

\getfiguredimensions[file]%
\edef\NOfpages{\noffigurepages}%
\dorecurse{\NOfpages}
   {\dorecurse{4}
        {\startTEXpage
         \externalfigure[file][page=\recurselevel]%
         \stopTEXpage}}

and then do the arranging.

Aditya
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