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Subject: Boklet Style; A summary
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From: msh@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Mark Hickman)
Date: 20 May 91 10:12:46 +1200
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With reference to my previous posting about producing booklets under La/Tex,
there appears (judging from my mailbox) enough interest to justify a summary.

There appears to be three methods to achieve the booklet re-ordering.

(i) Use of an appropriate dvi driver such as dvidvi

(ii) Use of a set of TeX macros such as quire.tex

(iii) Use of postscript macros such as psbook, pstops etc.

I am currently using dvips which I am very satisfied with and so I didn't
investigate the first option (I don't believe that there is any convenient
way to get dvips to product booklets).

Quire.tex is available from ymir.claremont.edu [134.173.4.23]. (see recent 
posting called Midnight Macros).

The third alternative is, for me, the most convenient. The set of macros 
psbook, pstops etc were written by Angus Duggan [ajcd@uk.ac.ed.lfcs] of the 
University of Edinburgh (and, I believe, were posted recently which I missed).
These macros will re-order a postscript file and then print in landscape two
pages on one etc (among other useful things). However this requires 
(obviously) the use of a postscript printer (and a postscript driver such as 
dvips). Also it requires, in my opinion, the use of postscript fonts (CM fonts
scaled under postscript are less than satisfactory) in order to print two 
pages on one sheet. Luckily I already use postscript fonts for almost 
everything (except the extension fonts cmex). 

Thanks to all those who replied.

-- 
Mark Hickman

email: msh@math.canterbury.ac.nz

smail: Department of Mathematics
       University of Canterbury
       Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND