[texhax] 4 'minipages' to fit on one A4-size paper for a booklet. -- How to do that?

[Susan Dittmar]

Quoting Ulrich Grün (ulrich.gruen at gmail.com):
> Also schrieben Sie am Dienstag, 30. März 2010 19:17:49:
> > > nup=2x2 seems allright (2x2 A6 pages on one A4 page).
> > > The problem that has not yet been solved is that I need to have page 2
> > > (of the  A6 page) on the reverse side of page 1 (and so on).
> > > The print-out should look like this:
> > > 
> > > 1,3   4,2   9,11
> > > 5,7   8,6   13,15  etc
> > > 
> > > (In this way, I print the odd sides first, put the printed sheets back in
> > > the  printer, and print the even sides afterward)
> > > 
> > > While it now looks like this:
> > > 
> > > 1,2   5,6   9,10
> > > 3,4   7,8   11,12  etc.
> > > 
> > > pdfpages.pdf doesn't seem to help here...
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > pages={1,3,5,7,4,2,8,6,9,11,13,15}
> > 
> > or something like that
> > 
> > untested
> > 
> > /daleif
> 
> 
> This is exactly what I need.
> It is a bit of work to get the pages in the right order. But once done, I can 
> use it as a template for the next song books.

You could try the signature option aswell. It is meant to rearrange pages
for printing on bigger paper.

Perhaps you could even combine that somehow with the doublepage option. As
you are creating A6 songbook, you have to at least cut in two (and then
fold). Using the doublepage option it might be possible to print two
songbooks together, stack all the papers as they come out of the printer,
cut once, and the fold without the need to rearrange.

I did not test that, but it sounds very useful to me.

Hope that helps,

	Susan
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