On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 12:06:38PM -0400, Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> LaTeX/LyX makes it possible to do Book On Demand (BOD)
> publishing, which is wonderful. By using LyX and specifying an
> 5.5 x 8.5 inch page size, you can then export postscript. Then
> run it through mpage to place 4 pages on the folded pages of
> an 8.5 x 11 inch page.
> See http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue47/nielsen.html for more
> details on this (I happen to be using FreeBSD).
>
> What LyX badly needs is an option to increase the font size from 12
> point to a size much larger (like 16 or even 18 point). This is
> needed because mpage reduces the image to fit each page, making
> it hard to read. Even ignoring the mpage issue, I would like to
> print large font. I realize it can probably be tricked to do this,
> but it would be much easier to specify it in the Layout->Document
> menu.
See http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts/extsizes.html
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 12:15:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> there are postscript utilities that do this. In particular, I want to
> say that whatyou're looking for is "psbook". I think I found it on
> debian many years ago.
psbook is part of the psutils package.
