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Subject: Two pages on one.
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Date: Tue, 20-May-86 19:24:38 EDT
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The model shown in the query from jeff@kestrel would certainly be
very difficult to manage, for the reasons outlined by David Fuchs.
Am I right in thinking that this is an attempt to fake up one
of those two column typescripts beloved of the low-budget
computer science conference proceedings publisher?  That could
just be done if the leading were very open, but it would require
some rather neat juggling of parts of pages.  

I have had to do a lot of such fakery lately, and the local
solution is a bit bizarre.  The only machine that can effectively be
used for this sort of fakery is the Alphatype.  I find myself
using a 5333 (notional) line/inch phototypesetter to simulate
the output of an IBM selectric (more or less).  Those
two column blue-line masters are a curse, and the sooner they
are done away with the better.  (The alphatype, which is
a Rube Goldberg phototypesetter, has a few remaining virtues
as a result of its ridiculously fine resolution.  You could
set a full signature 16 up on a single sheet, in imposition
order, if you could find an imposition camera that would
enlarge the results accurately.  I have never found such a
camera.)  

There are real needs for typesetters and pseudo-typesetters
that allow for some sheet size other than 8.5 by 11, but i
suspect that such a design will never be considered economically
viable for anything but roll fed typesetters.  We can still
hope for the under $10,000 phototypesetter, but until it arrives,
there is no substitute for the razor knife, the waxer and the
light-table.
					Pierre
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