Simons, Don wrote:
>
> No, I don't mean "upsetting your daily routine." This term also refers to
> the process of re-ordering pages for the the purpose of producing a book.
> Specifically, I'm trying to figure out how to produce a music book using
> 2-sided, 11x17-inch sheets. I would like to start with an ordinary
> PMX-generated multipage score. For example suppose there are 8 pages. I
> would like to wind up with a postscript file containing 11x17 pages, which I
> can then print to 11x17 sheets and duplicate double sided. In the example,
> there would be 4 11x17-in pages with left-right pairs of original pages
> (8+1), (2+7), (6+3), and (4+5).
>
> I can think of lots of ways to do this, but can't get any of them to work.
>
It's easy under EMTeX, which is one of the main reasons why I still
keep a plain old DOS partition on my machine. Here is an excerpt from
the contents page of the EMTeX documentation:
3.4 Side layout options
3.4.1 Specifying the paper size
3.4.2 Transformation (orientation)
3.4.3 Moving the output on the sheet
3.5 Producing booklets and books, n-up printing
3.5.1 Defining the locations of the pages on a sheet
3.5.2 Arranging the pages
3.5.3 Special effects
3.5.4 Examples
You can find EMTeX on CTAN in systems/msdos/emtex/
You must have one of the supported printers, though. Most printers
likely to be affordable to poor folk are supported (e.g. mine is an
HP Laserjet 4L) but most upmarket printers are not. In particular,
last time I looked, EMTeX did not have its own PS driver: one had to
use dvips, which does not (AFAIK) have book options.
Dirk
