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From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
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Subject: Re: Boklet Style; A summary
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Date: 22 May 91 07:15:31 GMT
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In article <16408@helios.TAMU.EDU>, jdm5548@tamsun.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley) writes:
> It seems to me that the pagination problem should have
> been addressed in Lamport's book.sty.  Does anyone know
> why it wasn't?  Is there a way that the quire.tex macros
> can be worked into it?

If you mean the imposition problem, it's because TeX really can't
handle that. Consider the 64page document to be printed 2-up
duplex and folded in half to form a booklet. Sheet one has pages
1 and 64 plus 2 and 63 on it. For TeX to know what goes where, it
has to know how many pages there are and hold the *whole* thing
in memory. Not really practical. Of course real-world imposition
involves printing large sheets which are folded in half several
times and trimmed to form signatures. Most paperbacks today are
printed in 16-page signatures (octavo) and the printed sheets
will have pages that are rotated ninety degrees. e.g.

V(9)  V(8) V(5) V(12)
A(16) A(1) A(4) A(13)

where the parenthesised number is the page number and the angle
of the letter shows where the top of the page would be. This, of
course, requires special DVI-processing abilities.

-dh

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