.TH A5BOOKLET 1 "OCTOBER 1997"
.SH NAME
a5booklet \- copy two A5 pages from a .dvi file to one A4 page in another.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B a5booklet
.IB file [.dvi]

.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX a5booklet
.LP
.B A5booklet
is a little script that allows you to typeset two A5 pages next to
eachother on a single A4 page (landscape), combining pages from
the original file in such a way that after double sided printing and
some reshuffeling of the pages you get a nice a5 booklet that is ready
for a staple in the middle. 

The script calls a very clever program 
.BR dvidvi ,
written by Tomas Rokicki (the author of 
.BR dvips ),
that does the real work. 

The output is written to two files, 
.IB file -1.dvi
and
.IB file -2.dvi
. Print the first file, using the command
.LP
.B dvips -ta4 -tlandscape 
.IB file -1
.LP
then put the stack upside doen in the printer, and print the second
file using
.LP
.B dvips -ta4 -tlandscape 
.IB file -2
.LP
Make sure that the bottom of the A5-pages is on the correct side of
the paper when you put the stack back for printing the back side.
After the two print jobs, you must re-shuffle the paper stack before
you can staple it. 

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR tex (1),
.BR dvips (1),
.BR dvidvi (1).
.LP
.SH BUGS
.LP
The script has A4 papersize hardwired into it.  Admittedly, a
European-centered way of thinking.  

Page number 1 is always the first page in the original .dvi file, not
the page numbered 1 by TeX's numbering scheme. 

.SH AUTHOR
.B A5booklet
is written by David A. van Leeuwen (david@ElseWare.cistron.nl), but is
is not original in any way.  The main two lines that do the work are
inspired from the man page of 
.BR dvidvi .
.B A5booklet
is available under the conditions of the Gnu Public Licence.