My problem: for our wedding i need a small magazine with a foto in front, the flow sheet, some notes for the music and some more additional informations. The decision was to create A5 sheets and print them doublesided on an A4 paper, so you actually need at least 4 A5 sheets to fill one paper.
The first attempt was OpenOffice, but if you have more than one A4 paper, it's really hard to have the sheets in the correct order. For one paper you need sheet 1 and 4 and sheet 2 and 3 adjoin each other. If you have 8 sheets, you need 1 and 8 together, 2 and 7 and so on ...
Thats complicated to do in OpenOffice (maybe there's a way to do this, but i don't know it).
So after some minutes i changed over to Tex, took one of my existing makefiles and modified it a bit. With the following makefile you can just create sheet after sheet in your TeX-file, type 'make' and you get 2 PDFs, one with the odd pages and one with the even pages. Thats all, what you have to do.
Oh, make sure, you have an exact number of pages (4, 8, 12, ...) ;-)
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Ich habe es wirklich geschafft, mir beim Radfahren einen Sonnenbrand zuzulegen. Nicht, das ich sonderlich anfällig dafür wäre, es dauert sehr lange, bis ich einen Sonnenbrand bekomme. Dafür ist mein Oberkörper ist in Form eines Dreiecks rot gebrannt, von einer Schulter quer über den Bauch zur gegenüberliegenden Hüfte. Die andere Hälfte hat gar nichts abbekommen. Schaut nett aus, dabei habe ich an dem Tag sogar ein T-Shirt getragen. Am Tag darauf war ich wesentlich länger unterwegs, teilweise sogar ohne Shirt, habe aber nichts abbekommen.
