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From: dougcc@csv.viccol.edu.au (Douglas Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Wanted: two pages on one with TeX
Message-ID: <343@csv.viccol.edu.au>
Date: 3 Apr 89 23:47:11 GMT
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In article <1707@spp2.UUCP>, urban@spp2.uucp (Michael Urban) writes:
> To clarify one point, when you print pages two-up on 8.5x11-inch
> paper, ...
> The resulting page images cannot quite visually represent
> a full page, however, since the proportions of a half-page are
> different from those of a full page.

(snigger)

> European DIN A- and B- series paper (such as A4 paper) has a useful
> proportion of \sqrt{2}:1, so that when folded in half, the proportions
> remain the same (and produce the next standard sheet in the series; A5
> is A4 folded in half).  An enviable situation.

Why envy?  Use A4!  Everybody else does!!