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diff --git a/contrib/mom/momdoc/rectoverso.html b/contrib/mom/momdoc/rectoverso.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e45537f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/mom/momdoc/rectoverso.html @@ -0,0 +1,248 @@ +<html> +<head> +<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"> +<title>Mom -- Document Processing, Recto/verso printing</title> +</head> +<body bgcolor="#dfdfdf"> + +<!====================================================================> + +<a href="cover.html#TOP">Next</a> +<a href="headfootpage.html#TOP">Prev</a> +<a href="toc.html">Back to Table of Contents</a> + +<a name="TOP"></a> +<a name="RECTOVERSO"> + <h2 align="center"><u>RECTO/VERSO PRINTING and COLLATING</u></h2> +</a> + +<a name="INDEX_RECTOVERSO"> + <h3><u>Recto/verso and collating</u></h3> +</a> + +<ul> + <li><a href="#RECTOVERSO_INTRO">Introduction to recto/verso</a> + <ul> + <li><a href="#RECTOVERSO_LIST">Macro list</a> + </ul> + <li><a href="#COLLATE_INTRO">Introduction to collating</a> + <ul> + <li><a href="#COLLATE">The COLLATE macro</a> + </ul> +</ul> + +<a name="RECTOVERSO_INTRO"> + <h2><u>Introduction to recto/verso</u></h2> +</a> + +Recto/verso printing allows you to set up a <strong>mom</strong> +document in such a way that it can be printed on both sides of a +printer sheet and subsequently bound. +<p> +With recto/verso, <strong>mom</strong> automatically takes control +of two aspects of alternating page layout in a document: the left and right +margins (provided they're not equal), and the switching of the left +and right parts of +<a href="definitions.html#TERMS_HEADER">headers</a> +or +<a href="definitions.html#TERMS_FOOTER">footers</a> +(see the +<a href="headfootpage.html#DESCRIPTION_GENERAL">General description of headers</a>) +and page numbering (if page numbers are not centered). +<p> +It is beyond the scope of this documentation to cover the different +ways in which you can make your printer print on both sides of a sheet. +A simple but effective method for those of us with "dumb" +printers is to open the document (after it's been processed into +PostScript by groff -- see +<a href="using.html#USING_INVOKING">How to invoke groff with mom</a>) +in <strong>gv</strong> (ghostview), +click the "odd pages" icon, then click "Print +Marked". After printing is complete, rearrange the sheets +appropriately, put them back in your printer, and have +<strong>gv</strong> print the "even pages". If you prefer to +work from the command line, check out the man pages for +<strong>pstops</strong> and <strong>psbook</strong>. There are other +programs out there as well to help with two-sided printing. +<br> + + +<a name="RECTOVERSO_LIST"> + <h3><u>Recto/verso macros list</u></h3> +</a> + +<ul> + <li><a href="#RECTO_VERSO">RECTO_VERSO</a> + <li><a href="#SWITCH_HDRFTR">SWITCH_HEADERS (also FOOTERS)</a> +</ul> + +<hr> +<!---RECTO_VERSO---> + +<a name="RECTO_VERSO"> + <h3><u>Recto/verso printing</u></h3> +</a> +<br> +Macro: <strong>RECTO_VERSO</strong> + +<p> +If you want <strong>mom</strong> to set up alternating pages for +recto/verso printing, simply invoke <strong>RECTO_VERSO</strong> +with no argument. +<p> +<strong>NOTE:</strong> +<br> +Recto/verso always switches the left and right parts of +<a href="definitions.html#TERMS_HEADER">headers</a> +or +<a href="definitions.html#TERMS_FOOTER">footers</a> +on odd/even pages. However, it only switches the left and right +margins if the margins aren't equal. Consequently, it is your +responsibility to set the appropriate differing left and right +margins with +<a href="typesetting.html#L_MARGIN">L_MARGIN</a> +and +<a href="typesetting.html#R_MARGIN">R_MARGIN</a> +(prior to +<a href="docprocessing.html#START">START</a>) +or with +<a href="docprocessing.html#DOC_LEFT_MARGIN">DOC_LEFT_MARGIN</a> +and +<a href="docprocessing.html#DOC_RIGHT_MARGIN">DOC_RIGHT_MARGIN</a> +(before or after <strong>START</strong>). +<p> +Equally, recto/verso only switches the page number position if page +numbers aren't centered, which means you have to set the page +number position with +<a href="headfootpage.html#PAGENUM_POS">PAGENUM_POS</a> +(before or after <strong>START</strong>). +<br> + +<!---SWITCH_HDRFTR---> + +<hr width="66%" align="left"> +<a name="SWITCH_HDRFTR"> + <h3><u>Switch header left part/right part</u></h3> +</a> +<br> +Macro: <strong>SWITCH_HEADERS</strong> + +<p> +<strong>SWITCH_HEADERS</strong> switches the location of the +header left string (by default, the author) and the header right +string (by default, the document title). If you don't like +<strong>mom</strong>'s default placement of author and title, use +<strong>SWITCH_HEADERS</strong> to reverse it. +<p> +<strong>SWITCH_HEADERS</strong> can also be useful in conjuction +with +<a href="#RECTO_VERSO">RECTO_VERSO</a>. +The assumption of <strong>RECTO_VERSO</strong> is that the first +page of a document (recto/odd) represents the norm for header-left +and header-right, meaning that the second (and all subsequent even) +page(s) of the document exchange header-left and header-right. +<p> +If <strong>mom</strong>'s behaviour in this matter is not what +you want, simply invoke <strong>SWITCH_HEADERS</strong> on the +first page of your recto/verso document to reverse her default +treatment of header parts. The remainder of your document (with +respect to headers) will come out as you want. +<p> +<strong>NOTE:</strong> Replace <strong>_HEADERS</strong>, above, +with <strong>_FOOTERS</strong> if your document uses footers. +<br> +<hr> + +<!=====================================================================> + +<a name="COLLATE_INTRO"> + <h2><u>Introduction to collating</u></h2> +</a> + +The macro <strong>COLLATE</strong> lets you join documents together. +Primarily, it's a convenience for printing long documents that +comprise several chapters, although it could be used for any +document type (except <strong>LETTER</strong>). +<p> +Personally, I prefer to keep chapters in separate files and print +them out as needed. However, that means keeping track of the correct +starting page number for each chapter, a problem circumvented by the +use of <strong>COLLATE</strong>. +<p> +When collating chapters, you need only put <code>.COLLATE</code> +at the end of a chapter, follow it with any +<a href="docprocessing.html#REFERENCE_MACROS">reference macros</a> +needed for the new chapter, e.g. +<a href="docprocessing.html#CHAPTER">CHAPTER</a> +or +<a href="docprocessing.html#CHAPTER_STRING">CHAPTER_STRING</a> +(have a look at the +<a href="#CHAPTER_NOTE">Special Note on CHAPTER</a>) +make any pertinent style changes to the document (unlikely, but +possible), and re-invoke the +<a href="docprocessing.html#START">START</a> +macro. Your new chapter will begin on a fresh page and behave +as expected. +<p> +<strong>COLLATE</strong> assumes you are collating documents/files +with similar type-style parameters hence there's no need for +<strong>PRINTSTYLE</strong> to appear after <strong>COLLATE</strong>, +although if you're collating documents that were created as separate +files, chances are the <strong>PRINTSTYLE</strong>'s already there. +<p> +<a name="CAUTION"></a> +<strong><u>Two words of caution:</u></strong> +<ol> + <li>do not collate documents of differing + <strong>PRINTSTYLES</strong> (i.e. don't try to + collate a TYPESET document and TYPEWRITE document -- + why would you want to do that anyway?) + <li>use <strong>DOC_FAMILY</strong> instead of + <strong>FAMILY</strong> if, for some reason, you want + to change the family of all the document elements after + <strong>COLLATE</strong>. <strong>FAMILY</strong>, by + itself, will change the family of paragraph text only. +</ol> +<br> + +<!---COLLATE---> + +<hr width="66%" align="left"> +<a name="COLLATE"> + <h3><u>Collate document files</u></h3> +</a> +<br> +Macro: <strong>COLLATE</strong> + +<p> +The most basic (and most likely) collating situation looks like +this: +<p> +<pre> + .COLLATE + .CHAPTER 17 + .START +</pre> + +A slightly more complex version of the same thing, for chapters +that require their own titles, looks like this: +<p> +<pre> + .COLLATE + .CHAPTER_STRING "Geek Fatigue: Symptoms and Causes" + .HEADER_CENTER "Geek Fatigue: Symptoms and Causes" + .START +</pre> + +<strong>NOTE:</strong> See the +<a href="#CAUTION">two words of caution</a>, +above. +<br> + +<hr> +<a href="cover.html#TOP">Next</a> +<a href="headfootpage.html#TOP">Prev</a> +<a href="#TOP">Top</a> +<a href="toc.html">Back to Table of Contents</a> +</body> +</html> |