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From: john@basho.uucp (John Lacey)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Pagination question
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.063104.19998@basho.uucp>
Date: 4 Mar 91 06:31:04 GMT
Organization: Sportsware
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I am TeXing a document that will be printed four pages to a sheet. 
Essentially this is double-sided landscape two-up on a sheet of 8 1/2 by 
14 paper, folded in half.

Can anyone think of a way to print the pages on the page in the order 
they need to be?  For example, a four page document, on a single sheet, 
needs pages 4 and 1 on the left and right, respectively, on one side, and 
pages 2 and 3 on the other side of the sheet.

For such a trivial example, it is certainly possible to save the pages in 
boxes, and calculate the correct order before shipping them out.  But a 
document of any real size would quickly exceed TeX's memory limitations.

Certainly I could TeX the document in the normal fashion, and, noting
the page breaks and so on, reorder the text to output those pages in
the correct order. Nonetheless, you will understand if I don't really
consider that a _solution_ :-).
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