Re: [NTG-context] Booklet hint

23 Jun 2008


      On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Diego Depaoli  wrote:
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2008/6/20 Wolfgang Schuster :
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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