dvibook

DVIBOOK(1)                  General Commands Manual                 DVIBOOK(1)

NAME
       dvibook - rearrange pages in DVI file into signatures

SYNOPSIS
       dvibook [ -q ] [ -s<num> ] [ -r ] [ -i infile ] [ -o outfile ] [ infile
       [ outfile ] ]

DESCRIPTION
       Dvibook rearranges pages from a DVI file produced by TeX into  ``signa-
       tures''  for printing books or booklets, creating a new DVI file usable
       by any of the TeX conversion programs.

       The -s option selects the size of signature which  will  be  used.  The
       signature  size  is  the number of sides which will be folded and bound
       together; the number given should be a multiple of four. The default is
       to  use  one  signature  for  the whole file. Extra blank sides will be
       added if the file does not contain a multiple of four pages.

       By default, dvibook rearranges the pages into  left-hand  side  binding
       signatures;  the  -r  option switches to right-hand side binding signa-
       tures. This might be useful for pTeX vertical writing (tate-kumi) docu-
       ments.

       Dvibook  normally  prints the page numbers of the pages rearranged; the
       -q option suppresses this.

AUTHOR
       Angus Duggan, from dviselect(1), by Chris Torek, University of Maryland

SEE ALSO
       dviconcat(1), dviselect(1), latex(1), tex(1)
       MC-TeX User's Guide
       The TeXbook

BUGS
       Dvibook does not adjust the parameters in the postamble; however, since
       these  values  are normally used only to size certain structures in the
       output conversion programs, and the parameters never  need  to  be  ad-
       justed upward, this has not proven to be a problem.

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