> Have you dealt with "gutters"?
> gutter: The blank space between facing pages of a book.
>
> It would involve shifting the odd pages right and the even
> pages left 1/4 inch or so.
This is something I tend to ignore. More "fancy" page layouts
suggest making the inner margin smaller tha
> Yes. Output to ps and then use psbook and pstops.
psbook page specifications are very flexible, but need a bit
of mental activity to get the positioning right. Here's what
I usually use for A4 paper (21 cm x 29.7 cm):
psbook |
pstops -pa4
'4:0L@.7071(21cm,0cm)+1L@.7071(21cm,14.85cm),2R@.
On 18-Nov-2012 21:06:27 Mike Bianchi wrote:
> Day in and day out, I'm a groff mm macro guy. 8 1/2 x 11 paper,
> double-sided, stapled at the left edge.
>
> But now I want to print out a booklet where the pages are 4 to a
> sheet and the sheets are printed so I just fold the stack in half
> and st
> But now I want to print out a booklet where the pages are 4 to
> a sheet and the sheets are printed so I just fold the stack in
> half and staple that edge to create a booklet.
>
> Is that a solved problem?
Yes. Output to ps and then use psbook and pstops.
Day in and day out, I'm a groff mm macro guy. 8 1/2 x 11 paper, double-sided,
stapled at the left edge.
But now I want to print out a booklet where the pages are 4 to a sheet
and the sheets are printed so I just fold the stack in half and staple that
edge to create a booklet.
Is that a solved pr
Mikkel --
Sorry for weighing in on this so late.
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> > Therefore I decided to do it all with simple typesetting
> > macros. It is fine but I have some minor problems.
> > [...] there is a line at the top of the page.
> > If I want it to go away how do
It's in the documentation.
> [...] there is a line at the top of the page.
> If I want it to go away how do I do it?
.HEADER_RULE OFF
> If I want it to stay how do I get text to land
> below the line instead of on top of it?
If you set T_MARGIN, the position of the page header is set
independe
It would seem that the horizontal line below the first line on the
output page is generated by the macro .NEWPAGE (tested by inserting
an extra .NEWPAGE). I can't work out from the [m]om.tmac file how
it does this, nor what should be done to prevent it happening
(it probably needs one of the defaul
