[svlug] LaTeX: Layout a 4-7/8" x 9-3/4" document

[Karsten M. Self]

on Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:15:59AM -0800, Sanatan Rai (sanat at stanford.edu) wrote:
> 
> :      +--------------------------------------------+
> :      |+-----------------+------------------+      |
> :      ||                 |                  |      |
> :      || Text            | text             |      |
> :      ||                 |                  |      |
> :      || ...             | ...              |      |
> :      ||                 |                  |      |
> :      || text            | text             |      |
> :      ||                 |                  |      |
> :      ||                 |                  |      |
> :      |+-----------------+------------------+      |
> :      |                                            |
> :      |                                            |
> :      |                                            |
> :      |                                            |
> :      +--------------------------------------------+
> :
> : ...the document will be cut from the 8x11.5 sheet, and folded.
> 
> 	Add the directive:
> 
> 	\AtBeginDocument{\input{2up}}
> 
> in the preamble. You will have to fiddle with the margins and the
> textwidth to get the output you want, but the above directive puts two
> pages on one.

Actually I think what I want is "twocolumn", I'm remembering this from
the Lion book, may be something different.

The effect I'm looking for is two regions on a page.  Not necessarially
two logical pages.

> Don't forget to use
> 
> 	-t landscape
> 
> with dvips.

Ah, that may help ;-)

Thanks.

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