HOWTO-MULTI.md

Howto nup-arranging

We want the dance cards to be double-sided. That gives the following cases. Cards with

• 1 page:
  • Layout first page on front.
  • Empty on back
• 2 pages:
  • Layout first page on front
  • Second on back
• 3 pages:
  • Layout first page on front of first card,
  • second page on front of second card,
  • third page on back of first card.
  • empty on back of second card.
• ...

Generic:

• a dance with n pages needs to be layouted on ceil(n/2) cards.
• Given that there a ceil(n/2) cards. The target sides are
  1. front 1
  2. front ...
  3. front n
  4. back 1
  5. back ...
  6. back n

Steps:

1. Compile single-pdfs
2. Get page numbers from single pdfs
3. Concat page numbers to whole document page numbers
   (we need to have all pages in one document since pdfpages (latex package for nupping) only supports a single source document)
4. Arrange the dances according to page count
5. write the tex file
6. compile tex file