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? Thanks in advance -- Diego Depaoli

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Diego Depaoli wrote:

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