My feeling at the moment is that this might be about the only way one
could go ahead in a production situation, and yes, I am familiar with
PDF tools that can achieve this, though it is effectively stepping aside
from ConTeXt and working with PDF. For that matter I can easily go ahead
with a commercial program that solves all the problems thus far
indicated. I think it is true to say that at the moment, the streams
mechanism is far too klunky to be able to use it extensively. For a
handful of pages (and especially if the two streams re absolutely equal
in length) it is workable. Beyond that, at least for the moment, it is
not, and I am afraid I do not have the luxury of time to try to refine
it. Your efforts, Bruce, are hugely appreciated, but also confirm the
difficulties faced thus far.
Julian
On 15/9/23 22:44, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
An alternate option, might be to consider producing the body matter as two
'independent' books, one with the pages on the left and page numbered 1,3,5 and
the other numbered 2,4,6 and then merge them as PDF pages into the final book.
Then merge frontmatter and back matter. If you are reasonably familiar with PDF
splitting / joing tools then this might be the simplest solution.
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