1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> 2 <html> 3 <head> 4 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"> 5 <title>Mom -- Document Processing, Recto/verso printing</title> 6 </head> 7 <body bgcolor="#dfdfdf"> 8 9 <!====================================================================> 10 11 <a href="cover.html#TOP">Next</a> 12 <a href="headfootpage.html#TOP">Prev</a> 13 <a href="toc.html">Back to Table of Contents</a> 14 <p> 15 16 <a name="TOP"></a> 17 <a name="INDEX_RECTOVERSO"></a> 18 <a name="RECTOVERSO"> 19 <h1 align="center"><u>RECTO/VERSO PRINTING and COLLATING</u></h1> 20 </a> 21 22 <ul> 23 <li><a href="#RECTOVERSO_INTRO">Introduction to recto/verso</a> 24 <ul> 25 <li><a href="#RECTOVERSO_LIST">Macro list</a> 26 </ul> 27 <li><a href="#COLLATE_INTRO">Introduction to collating</a> 28 <ul> 29 <li><a href="#COLLATE">The COLLATE macro</a> 30 </ul> 31 </ul> 32 33 <a name="RECTOVERSO_INTRO"> 34 <h2><u>Introduction to recto/verso</u></h2> 35 </a> 36 37 Recto/verso printing allows you to set up a <strong>mom</strong> 38 document in such a way that it can be printed on both sides of a 39 printer sheet and subsequently bound. 40 <p> 41 With recto/verso, <strong>mom</strong> automatically takes control 42 of the following aspects of alternating page layout: 43 <br> 44 <ul> 45 <li>switching left and right margins (if they're not equal) 46 <li>switching the left and right parts of the default 3-part 47 <a href="definitions.html#TERMS_HEADER">headers</a> 48 or 49 <a href="definitions.html#TERMS_FOOTER">footers</a> 50 (see the 51 <a href="headfootpage.html#DESCRIPTION_GENERAL">General description of headers</a>) 52 <li>switching 53 <a href="headfootpage.html#HDRFTR_RECTOVERSO">HEADER_RECTO</a> 54 and 55 <a href="headfootpage.html#HDRFTR_RECTOVERSO">HEADER_VERSO</a> 56 if user-defined, single string recto/verso headers 57 or footers are used in place of the default 3-part 58 headers or footers 59 <li>switching the page number position (if page numbers are not centred) 60 </ul> 61 <p> 62 It is beyond the scope of this documentation to cover the different 63 ways in which you can make your printer print on both sides of a sheet. 64 A simple but effective method for those of us with "dumb" 65 printers is to open the document (after it's been processed into 66 PostScript by groff -- see 67 <a href="using.html#USING_INVOKING">How to invoke groff with mom</a>) 68 in <strong>gv</strong> (ghostview), 69 click the "odd pages" icon, then click "Print 70 Marked". After printing is complete, rearrange the sheets 71 appropriately, put them back in your printer, and have 72 <strong>gv</strong> print the "even pages". If you prefer to 73 work from the command line, check out the man pages for 74 <strong>pstops</strong> and <strong>psbook</strong>. There are other 75 programs out there as well to help with two-sided printing. 76 <p> 77 78 <a name="RECTOVERSO_LIST"> 79 <h3><u>Recto/verso macros list</u></h3> 80 </a> 81 82 <ul> 83 <li><a href="#RECTO_VERSO">RECTO_VERSO</a> 84 <li><a href="#SWITCH_HDRFTR">SWITCH_HEADERS (also FOOTERS)</a> 85 </ul> 86 <p> 87 88 <hr> 89 <!---RECTO_VERSO---> 90 91 <a name="RECTO_VERSO"> 92 <h3><u>Recto/verso printing</u></h3> 93 </a> 94 Macro: <strong>RECTO_VERSO</strong> 95 96 <p> 97 If you want <strong>mom</strong> to set up alternating pages for 98 recto/verso printing, simply invoke <strong>RECTO_VERSO</strong> 99 with no argument. 100 <p> 101 <strong>NOTE:</strong> 102 <br> 103 Recto/verso always switches the left and right parts of 104 <a href="definitions.html#TERMS_HEADER">headers</a> 105 or 106 <a href="definitions.html#TERMS_FOOTER">footers</a> 107 on odd/even pages. However, it only switches the left and right 108 margins if the margins aren't equal. Consequently, it is your 109 responsibility to set the appropriate differing left and right 110 margins with 111 <a href="typesetting.html#L_MARGIN">L_MARGIN</a> 112 and 113 <a href="typesetting.html#R_MARGIN">R_MARGIN</a> 114 (prior to 115 <a href="docprocessing.html#START">START</a>) 116 or with 117 <a href="docprocessing.html#DOC_LEFT_MARGIN">DOC_LEFT_MARGIN</a> 118 and 119 <a href="docprocessing.html#DOC_RIGHT_MARGIN">DOC_RIGHT_MARGIN</a> 120 (before or after <strong>START</strong>). 121 <p> 122 Equally, recto/verso only switches the page number position if page 123 numbers aren't centred, which means you have to set the page 124 number position with 125 <a href="headfootpage.html#PAGENUM_POS">PAGENUM_POS</a> 126 (before or after <strong>START</strong>). 127 <p> 128 129 <!---SWITCH_HDRFTR---> 130 131 <hr width="66%" align="left"> 132 <a name="SWITCH_HDRFTR"> 133 <h3><u>Switch header left part/right part</u></h3> 134 </a> 135 Macro: <strong>SWITCH_HEADERS</strong> 136 137 <p> 138 <strong>SWITCH_HEADERS</strong> switches the location of the 139 header left string (by default, the author) and the header right 140 string (by default, the document title). If you don't like 141 <strong>mom</strong>'s default placement of author and title, use 142 <strong>SWITCH_HEADERS</strong> to reverse it. 143 <p> 144 <strong>SWITCH_HEADERS</strong> can also be useful in conjunction 145 with 146 <a href="#RECTO_VERSO">RECTO_VERSO</a>. 147 The assumption of <strong>RECTO_VERSO</strong> is that the first 148 page of a document (recto/odd) represents the norm for header-left 149 and header-right, meaning that the second (and all subsequent even) 150 page(s) of the document exchange header-left and header-right. 151 <p> 152 If <strong>mom</strong>'s behaviour in this matter is not what 153 you want, simply invoke <strong>SWITCH_HEADERS</strong> on the 154 first page of your recto/verso document to reverse her default 155 treatment of header parts. The remainder of your document (with 156 respect to headers) will come out as you want. 157 <p> 158 <strong>NOTE:</strong> Replace <strong>_HEADERS</strong>, above, 159 with <strong>_FOOTERS</strong> if your document uses footers. 160 <p> 161 <hr> 162 163 <!=====================================================================> 164 165 <a name="COLLATE_INTRO"> 166 <h2><u>Introduction to collating</u></h2> 167 </a> 168 169 The macro <strong>COLLATE</strong> lets you join documents together. 170 Primarily, it's a convenience for printing long documents that 171 comprise several chapters, although it could be used for any 172 document type (except <strong>LETTER</strong>). 173 <p> 174 Personally, I prefer to keep chapters in separate files and print 175 them out as needed. However, that means keeping track of the correct 176 starting page number for each chapter, a problem circumvented by the 177 use of <strong>COLLATE</strong>. 178 <p> 179 When collating chapters, you need only put <code>.COLLATE</code> 180 at the end of a chapter, follow it with any 181 <a href="docprocessing.html#REFERENCE_MACROS">reference macros</a> 182 needed for the new chapter, e.g. 183 <a href="docprocessing.html#CHAPTER">CHAPTER</a> 184 or 185 <a href="docprocessing.html#CHAPTER_STRING">CHAPTER_STRING</a> 186 (have a look at the 187 <a href="#CHAPTER_NOTE">Special Note on CHAPTER</a>) 188 make any pertinent style changes to the document (unlikely, but 189 possible), and re-invoke the 190 <a href="docprocessing.html#START">START</a> 191 macro. Your new chapter will begin on a fresh page and behave 192 as expected. 193 <p> 194 <strong>COLLATE</strong> assumes you are collating documents/files 195 with similar type-style parameters hence there's no need for 196 <strong>PRINTSTYLE</strong> to appear after <strong>COLLATE</strong>, 197 although if you're collating documents that were created as separate 198 files, chances are the <strong>PRINTSTYLE</strong>'s already there. 199 <p> 200 <a name="CAUTION"></a> 201 <strong><u>Two words of caution:</u></strong> 202 <ol> 203 <li>Do not collate documents of differing 204 <strong>PRINTSTYLES</strong> (i.e. don't try to 205 collate a TYPESET document and TYPEWRITE document). 206 <li>Use <strong>DOC_FAMILY</strong> instead of 207 <strong>FAMILY</strong> if, for some reason, you want 208 to change the family of all the document elements after 209 <strong>COLLATE</strong>. <strong>FAMILY</strong>, by 210 itself, will change the family of paragraph text only. 211 </ol> 212 <p> 213 214 <!---COLLATE---> 215 216 <hr width="66%" align="left"> 217 <a name="COLLATE"> 218 <h3><u>Collate document files</u></h3> 219 </a> 220 221 Macro: <strong>COLLATE</strong> 222 223 <p> 224 The most basic (and most likely) collating situation looks like 225 this: 226 <p> 227 <pre> 228 .COLLATE 229 .CHAPTER 17 230 .START 231 </pre> 232 233 A slightly more complex version of the same thing, for chapters 234 that require their own titles, looks like this: 235 <p> 236 <pre> 237 .COLLATE 238 .CHAPTER_TITLE "Geek Fatigue: Symptoms and Causes" 239 .START 240 </pre> 241 242 <strong>NOTE:</strong> See the 243 <a href="#CAUTION">two words of caution</a>, 244 above. 245 <p> 246 247 <hr> 248 <a href="cover.html#TOP">Next</a> 249 <a href="headfootpage.html#TOP">Prev</a> 250 <a href="#TOP">Top</a> 251 <a href="toc.html">Back to Table of Contents</a> 252 </body> 253 </html> 254
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