On 02/24/2015 03:29 PM, Willi Egger wrote:
Hi Pablo,
..late answer ;-)
your explanation is fine. I also looked at your example in the link…
We had this discussion in earlier threads. For me as a bookbinder, your issue is not really something for impositioning in a restricted sense. The thing is, that the machinery for imposition is looping over the number of pages and puts them in the defined place. So if one wants to achieve what you describe, the machinery would have to set up in a different way. I run into this issue myself and I would suggest, that you are going to use for this special purpose some code like this:
\def\Myfilename{quotes-1} \def\Mypages{22}
Many thanks for your reply, Willy. Your code works fine, but I would like two improvements to make the process fully automatic. So I could use it with different documents in an easier way. Is there a way that ConTeXt gets the total number of pages from the PDF file itself? I can redefine \Myfilename with an \env argument, but I don’t know how to get thet total number of pages.
p.s. I am curious about how your booklet looks like after assembly. You put 142 pages in it with arranging 2UP. Folding this amount of paper makes a rather thick booklet and I expect, that the outer margins are very small after cutting it square…?
This is a booklet that I made available on the net. I don’t try to compete with the bookbinding industry ;-). The booklet is rather thick, but the trick is not to cut the outer margin. It is a booklet and not a book, after all. But I would say that the result is not bad. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk