Am 24.02.2014 um 20:55 schrieb amerke :

hi again,

a simplified setup with two A6 and one A5 page on one sheet of A4 paper (no back page in this case) would also be a great starting point ...

+----------+----------+ | | | | A6 | | | | | +----------+ A5 + | | | | A6 | | | | | +----------+----------+

please also answer if it's not possible with ConTeXt at all, so i can start looking for other options as soon as possible.

I won’t say it’s impossible but you have to write your own imposition alternative because the predefined alternatives expect pages of the same size. Wolfgang

Am 25.02.2014 um 15:32 schrieb amerke :

hi wolfgang & list,

what/where would be a good starting point of implementing such a feature ... ? do i have to hack ConTeXt source code for this or can it be done with a user defined macro?

my plan for now will be: to produce the pages with ConTeXt and produce then directly a PDF file, which will include the generated pages at the right position.

but a pure ConTeXt solution would be nice in the end …

Context has a interface which can be used to save finished pages before the page is put in the pdf file but what you want can only be done with low level tex code. The difficulty depends on your requirements and your own tex skills to write it. Wolfgang

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 03:37:48PM +0100, amerke wrote:

hi all,

using

\setuppaper[nx=2, ny=2] \setuparranging[XY] \showframe[cut=true]

\setuppapersize[A4] \starttext \setuppapersize[A6][A4] Page 1. A6 Portrait \input knuth \page Page 2. A6 Portrait \input knuth \page \setuppapersize[A5,landscape][A4] Page 3. A5 \input knuth \stoptext

i ALMOST get the wished layout. the only problem is, that the A5 page is in landscape mode.

is there a kind of quick hack to change the orientation of the A5 page to protrait, by leaving \setuppapersize[A5,landscape][A4] as it stands (othewise the layout doesn't function)?

artur

Hello Artur, Wonderful! Would rotating the A5-text by 90° solve your problem? Not tested and I fear, the pagenumber will remain on the side. Rudolf

hi rudolf (& list), thank you for your 'quick hack', it's ok for my current solution. page number, margins and background and stuff like grid alignment are still a problem ... but, i suppose, there must be :-) a tiny piece of code in ConTeXt, where the rotation of the whole page can be achieved (but still treating the page as a landscape page for the above setup arranging layer) maybe someone knows how to do it and can share his knowledge ... ? cheers artur On 02/26/2014 05:46 PM, Rudolf Bahr wrote:

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 03:37:48PM +0100, amerke wrote:

...

hi all,

using

\setuppaper[nx=2, ny=2] \setuparranging[XY] \showframe[cut=true]

\setuppapersize[A4] \starttext \setuppapersize[A6][A4] Page 1. A6 Portrait \input knuth \page Page 2. A6 Portrait \input knuth \page \setuppapersize[A5,landscape][A4] Page 3. A5 \input knuth \stoptext

i ALMOST get the wished layout. the only problem is, that the A5 page is in landscape mode.

is there a kind of quick hack to change the orientation of the A5 page to protrait, by leaving \setuppapersize[A5,landscape][A4] as it stands (othewise the layout doesn't function)?

artur

Hello Artur,

meanwhile I played a bit and got:

% ------------------------------------------------ \setuppaper[nx=2, ny=2] \setuparranging[XY] \showframe[cut=true]

\setuppapersize[A4] \starttext \setuppapersize[A6][A4] Page 1. A6 Portrait \input knuth \page Page 2. A6 Portrait \input knuth \page \setuppapersize[A5,landscape][A4] \rotate[rotation=90] { \vbox to 100mm { \hsize=80mm Page 3. A5 \input knuth } } \stoptext % ------------------------------------------------

Ofcourse, the pagenumber remains, where it has been before.

Greetings, Rudolf

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hi, i ended up using a very flexible (open source, LUA scriptable by option) imposition tool: podofoimpose (http://podofo.sourceforge.net/tools.html) it's just an additional step to get my output done (as my ConTeXt files are generated by a ruby script) ... cheers artur On 02/27/2014 04:43 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, amerke wrote:

...

hi rudolf (& list),

thank you for your 'quick hack', it's ok for my current solution. page number, margins and background and stuff like grid alignment are still a problem ...

but, i suppose, there must be :-) a tiny piece of code in ConTeXt, where the rotation of the whole page can be achieved (but still treating the page as a landscape page for the above setup arranging layer)

maybe someone knows how to do it and can share his knowledge ... ?

Do you need interaction (hyperref in latex-speak) to work? If not, one possibility is the following.

You anyways have to do manual page-breaking because your sheets are of different size. Create a PDF with two A6 pages followed by an A5 page (and repeat).

Use a separate CLD (Context lua document) for arranging. Once you know the number of pages of the pdf (you can get this in lua as well as in tex), you can simple use something like (pseudo code)

for i = 1, no_of_page, 3 do context.setlayer( {"page"}, {x = "0", y = "0" }, { "\\externalfigure[file][page=i]" }) context.setlayer( {"page"}, {x = "0", y = "0.5\\textheight" }, { "\\externalfigure[file][page=i+1]" }) context.setlayer( {"page"}, {x = "0.5\\textwidth", y = "0" }, { "\\externalfigure[file][page=i+2]" }) end

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