Hi Snajoy, May be you could approach that issue with preparing first a document on A4 and for paper saving arrange the pages from the pdf with texexec:
texmfstart texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5a4 --2up yourfile.pdf Willi Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > Willi Egger wrote: > >> In your code you try to typeset two A5 portrait beneeth each other >> on a A4 landscape, which is impossible. >> ... >> By the way if you want to typeset A5 on a A4 landscape without >> intending to make a booklet, then you can use setuparranging[2SIDE] >> > > Thanks for the explanations. Now I understand what's going on, and > the wiki page makes more sense too. I'll add to the wiki shortly. > > A related problem is how to demagnify. Then you could have (1) a > high-quality, final mode that generates A4 pages, and (2) a draft, > papersaving mode that demagnifies them to A5 and combines them in > pairs (a la 2SIDE) into A4. I see how to use modes to do everything > except the demagnifying (Context seems, perhaps wisely, to ignore > \magnification). > > -Sanjoy > > `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' > --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1. > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
