On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Diego Depaoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/20 Wolfgang Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> What kind and size of font you suggest to maximize readability saving paper? >> >> I use myself a size between 8 and 10pt but it depends on the font and >> 8pt could be too small for a few fonts. You could also try to adjust the >> margins to get more text on the page. > Thanks, 9pt was my original choice, but someone complained about this size. > In the meanwhile I got another problem. > The central page of this booklet should contain a text which fits an > A4 sheet so we will have > [A5][A4, landscape] papersize on pages 1-8, 2-7, 3-6 and [A4, > rotated][A4,landscape] in pages 4-5. > My trivial code (obviously) doesn't work and searching wiki and ml > didn't give much help: > > \setuppapersize[A5][A4, landscape] > \setuparranging[2UP] > \startpostponing[4] > \setuppapersize[A4,rotated][A4,landscape] > \input knuth > \page > \stoppostponing > \startext > \dorecurse{50}{\input hawking} > \stoptext > > How can I achieve the desired result?
Write the text for the A4 page in a seperate document and include it as a figure. \setupexternalfigures[location={local,global,default}] \setuppapersize[A5][A4, landscape] \setuparranging[2UP] \startpostponing[4] \offset [leftoffset=-\backspace, topoffset=-\dimexpr\topspace+\headerheight\relax] {\clip [width=\paperwidth] {\externalfigure[cow][width=2\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]}} \stoppostponing \startpostponing[5] \noheaderandfooterlines \offset [leftoffset=-\backspace, topoffset=-\dimexpr\topspace+\headerheight\relax] {\clip [hoffset=\paperwidth,width=\paperwidth] {\externalfigure[cow][width=2\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]}} \stoppostponing \starttext \dorecurse{50}{\input hawking} \stoptext Regards Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________