-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 March 2007 13:53, Russell L. Harris was heard to say: > * On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:01:15PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > What I would like to do is make a booklet, that is to say > > "letter" sheets folded in the middle to make 5.5x8.5 pages. > > > > Can someone point me to instructions or a page setting for this? > > I cannot find it. It seems reasonable to me to assume that OOo > > would be able to do this. > > The ability appears to be provided by the LaTeX package "dviutils", > which is in the Debian archive: > > http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/dviutils/dvibook.html > > It appears that the routines within dviutils are stand-alone; if > so, then perhaps OpenOffice can produce a dvi file on which the > appropriate utility can operate. > > And don't overlook the possibility of using LaTeX (or, if you > simply must have WYSIWYG, LyX) for the booklet. Once you've used > LaTeX for a publication (which is a very simple matter), I think > you would be loathe to return to the manual, "stone-age" WYSIWYG > approach, other than for an extremely complex and unpredictable > layout, such as a grocery-store tabloid or a newsletter with > photos, headlines, and captions. For anything having an academic > or scholarly appearance, LaTeX is much better. > > RLH
Thank you. The only benefit I see with the WYSIWYG style is to be able to say, "that is NOT right" without having to print it out first. :^) Page numbering is the issue, and I know get newsletters folded just that way that were made on a Mac, so I thought maybe OOo would have that kind of page numbering possible. I'll check LaTeX out, it's not like I've never heard of it. :^) Curt- - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRe8mtC9Y35yItIgBAQK5Fwf+LkCpgdfR4N4bvRBTbVBQmTCtO1z3I0wb kzdQesR8ec3T1sRE99OWwEJIg2TEH461a+9ICqkylRxvvzMd9QGaVXkwqAoNZzzw BZy5R5EoM/0XvXbT2bl9UELUK3JrOeHKvhHtESy9U3ryWnbfb08ST462S0Kiny76 1ExnJ9pNJjFwdHz+B9CzvHonG0ThTsfmxU/VWr28TNdQQKXlrZMI+pY9JwMTufd4 jE/ALyjBUdycXVg6fRU0DK/QOXTrAB7MLuTvN1i4NE9cIKZSYASadNazN0D4H1oo bu0IWQf22oFmp6kcApLOXFKYFzF9tK/D+bUaJEMtkL9WHHVd5rwB2A== =gpK8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
