By imposition I mean converting a file defining a set of letter-size (8.5 by 11 in) pages into one defining a set of ledger size pages (17 by 11), each one containing two letter sized ones, and arranged in such a way that I can print the ledger sheets 2-sided to make a booklet. Over the years I've developed a scheme that does this at the dvi level, using a combination of the ancient programs dviselec, dviconca, and dvidvi. It usually works but sometimes fails. When it fails, it still allows me to create a ledger sized postscript from the final dvi (using dvips), but when viewing the postscript in gsview, at some page after the first gsview tells me I have bad postscript and refuses to go on. I'm fairly sure the problem has to do with the postscript specials required by type K slurs, and I tried to remedy it (long ago) with a PMX option to insert psslurs.pro into the postscript at the start of every page, but even that doesn't always solve the problem.
I know there is supposed to be an similar set of programs that let you do imposition at the postscript level (psbook, etc). I've tried those too, but was never successful in getting acceptable control over the size and position of the component page images. I'd be very interested to hear how others have approached this task. It seems that it would be an issue in many other TeX applications beyond MusiXTeX , and I'd expect there to be some number of folks out there who have addressed it and have it under control. --Don Simons ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
