Well, I'm pleased to report that I've succeeded in going from PMX source to an 8-page music booklet using only pmxab, etex, musixflx, dvips and pstops, with inspiration from Jean-Pierre. One key was recognizing that his "-" signs in the pstops options would let you do imposition on a .ps with an arbitrary number of pages, with just one call. Then with a 1-sided HP Laserjet 4MV printer, I could tell it to print from the manual feed tray, print one page, it would stop automatically and wait, I could take the page just printed and flip it over and feed it, it would print the next page on the back of the first, and then just keep repeating that process. Another key, as I mentioned below, was to insert the TeX for the cover page into the PMX source file. I did not have to use Olivier's rotation trick in pstops, but it did take a little trial and error in ghostscript and in the printer driver inputs to get the orientation right for the whole document.
--Don > -----Original Message----- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] On Behalf Of Don > Simons > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 8:16 AM > To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' > Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Strange page orientation with pstops > > Lots of déjà vu going on here. I'm sure I looked at psbook 15 or so years ago > and rejected it for some reason in the quest that led me to the rather > complex, dvi-based scheme I recently outlined. That scheme worked just > fine until I got this 64-bit Win7 OS, and I'm sure would still work fine if I > booted up the old laptop I replaced. But that being such a nuisance, for now > my intent is to pursue the pstops route. One step I haven't yet worked out is > a scheme for merging two separate postscript documents into one. I'd want > to do that because I traditionally typeset the cover page separately, and I'd > want to put it and possibly a blank page into the basic score document before > doing the full-document imposition that pstops evidently can handle. > Yes, I know I can include the TeX for the cover page into the PMX source as > type 4 inline TeX, and I may end up taking that route. > > --Don > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] On Behalf Of Simon > > Dreher > > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 1:13 AM > > To: Werner Icking Music Archive > > Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Strange page orientation with pstops > > > > Hi Don, > > > > > I have looked at the pdftk link. It seems like it could be useful > > > for many purposes, but I did not see the key item for > > > booklet-making, namely making new, double-size pages from two side- > by-side single pages. > > > > What about psbook for re-arranging pages for a booklet out of a ps > > file (actually gs with an apropriate set of command line arguments, > > afaik) or pdfbook (similar command line arguments and features, but > > relying on pdflatex including full-page figures in a new pdf, if I > > remember > correctly)? > > > > Good luck, > > Simon > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------- 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
