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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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+
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+Written by Peter Schaffter (peter@schaffter.ca).
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+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+
+<head>
+ <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/>
+ <title>Mom -- Recto/verso printing, collating</title>
+ <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" />
+</head>
+
+<body style="background-color: #f5faff;">
+
+<!-- ==================================================================== -->
+
+<div id="top" class="page">
+
+<!-- Navigation links -->
+<table style="width: 100%;">
+<tr>
+ <td><a href="toc.html">Back to Table of Contents</a></td>
+ <td style="text-align: right;"><a href="cover.html#top">Next: Cover pages</a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<h1 class="docs">Recto/verso printing, collating</h1>
+
+<div style="width: 50%; margin: auto;">
+<ul class="no-enumerator" style="margin-left: -1em;">
+ <li><a href="#rectoverso-intro">Introduction to recto/verso printing</a>
+ <ul style="margin-left: -.5em; list-style-type: disc;">
+ <li><a href="#rectoverso-list">Macro list</a></li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li><a href="#collate-intro">Introduction to collating</a>
+ <ul style="margin-left: -.5em; list-style-type: disc;">
+ <li><a href="#collate">The COLLATE macro</a></li>
+ </ul></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="rule-medium"><hr/></div>
+
+<h2 id="rectoverso-intro" class="docs">Introduction to recto/verso printing</h2>
+
+<p>
+Recto/verso printing allows you to set up a mom document in such
+a way that it can be printed on both sides of a printer sheet and
+subsequently bound.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+With recto/verso, mom automatically takes control of the following
+aspects of alternating page layout:
+</p>
+<ul style="margin-top: -.5em; margin-left: -.5em; margin-bottom: -.5em;">
+ <li>switching left and right margins (if they&#8217;re not equal)</li>
+ <li>switching the left and right parts of the default 3-part
+ <a href="definitions.html#header">headers</a>
+ or
+ <a href="definitions.html#footer">footers</a>
+ (see the
+ <a href="headfootpage.html#description-general">General description of headers</a>)
+ </li>
+ <li>switching
+ <a href="headfootpage.html#hdrftr-recto">HEADER_RECTO</a>
+ and
+ <a href="headfootpage.html#hdrftr-recto">HEADER_VERSO</a>
+ if user-defined, single string recto/verso headers
+ or footers are used in place of the default 3-part
+ headers or footers
+ </li>
+ <li>switching the page number position (if page numbers are not centred)</li>
+</ul>
+<br/>
+
+<div class="macro-list-container">
+<h3 id="rectoverso-list" class="macro-list">Recto/verso macros</h3>
+<ul class="macro-list">
+ <li><a href="#recto-verso">RECTO_VERSO</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#force-recto">FORCE_RECTO</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#switch-hdrftr">SWITCH_HEADERS (also FOOTERS)</a>
+ &ndash; switch starting position of the header parts (left and right)
+ </li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<!-- -RECTO_VERSO- -->
+
+<div id="recto-verso" class="box-macro-args">
+Macro: <b>RECTO_VERSO</b>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+If you want mom to set up alternating pages for recto/verso
+printing, simply invoke RECTO_VERSO, with no argument, anywhere in
+your document (most likely before
+<a href="docprocessing.html#start">START</a>).
+</p>
+
+<div class="box-tip">
+<p class="tip-top">
+<span class="note">Note:</span>
+Recto/verso always switches the left and right parts of
+<a href="definitions.html#header">headers</a>
+or
+<a href="definitions.html#footer">footers</a>
+on odd/even pages. However, it only switches the left and right
+margins if the margins aren&#8217;t equal. Consequently, it is
+your responsibility to set the appropriate differing left and right
+margins with
+<a href="typesetting.html#l-margin">L_MARGIN</a>
+and
+<a href="typesetting.html#r-margin">R_MARGIN</a>
+(prior to
+<a href="docprocessing.html#start">START</a>)
+or with
+<a href="docprocessing.html#doc-left-margin">DOC_LEFT_MARGIN</a>
+and
+<a href="docprocessing.html#doc-right-margin">DOC_RIGHT_MARGIN</a>
+(before or after START).
+</p>
+
+<p class="tip-bottom">
+Equally, recto/verso only switches the page number position if page
+numbers aren&#8217;t centred, which means you have to set the page
+number position with
+<a href="headfootpage.html#pagenum-pos">PAGENUM_POS</a>
+(before or after START).
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<!-- -FORCE_RECTO- -->
+
+<div id="force-recto" class="box-macro-args" style="margin-top: 1em;">
+Macro: <b>FORCE_RECTO</b>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+It is a common convention with two-sided printing to ensure that
+cover pages, title pages, and chapters or major sections of a document
+always begin on the recto side of a page. This sometimes
+necessitates inserting a blank page before the start of a new
+chapter or major section.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+If you would like mom to take care of this for you automatically,
+simply invoke <kbd>FORCE_RECTO</kbd> before the first
+<a href="docprocessing.html#start">START</a>
+of the document.
+</p>
+
+<!-- -SWITCH_HDRFTR- -->
+
+<div id="switch-hdrftr" class="box-macro-args" style="margin-top: 1em;">
+Macro: <b>SWITCH_HEADERS</b>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+SWITCH_HEADERS switches the location of the header left string
+(by default, the author) and the header right string (by default,
+the document title). If you don&#8217;t like mom&#8217;s default
+placement of author and title, use SWITCH_HEADERS to reverse it.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+SWITCH_HEADERS can also be useful in conjunction with
+<a href="#recto-verso">RECTO_VERSO</a>.
+The assumption of RECTO_VERSO is that the first page of a document
+(i.e. recto/odd) represents the norm for header-left and header-right,
+meaning that the second (and all subsequent verso/even) pages of the
+document will reverse the order of header-left and header-right.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+If mom&#8217;s behaviour in this matter is not what you want, simply
+invoke SWITCH_HEADERS on the first page of your recto/verso document
+to reverse her default treatment of header parts. The remainder of
+your document (with respect to headers) will come out as you want.
+</p>
+
+<div class="rule-medium"><hr/></div>
+
+<!-- ===================================================================== -->
+
+<h2 id="collate-intro" class="docs">Introduction to collating</h2>
+
+<p>
+Many people wisely keep chapters of a long work in separate
+files, previewing or printing them as needed during the draft
+phase. However, when it comes to the final version, mom requires
+a single, collated file in order to keep track of page numbering
+and recto/verso administration, generating tables of contents and
+endnotes, ensuring that
+<a href="definitions.html#docheader">docheaders</a>
+get printed correctly, and a host of other details.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The COLLATE macro, which can be used with any
+<a href="docprocessing.html#doctype">DOCTYPE</a>
+except <kbd>LETTER</kbd>, lets you glue mom-formatted input files
+together. You need only concatenate chapters into a single file
+(most likely with <kbd>cat(1)</kbd>), and put
+<kbd>.COLLATE</kbd> at the end of each concatenated chapter.
+Assuming all the files begin with the required
+<a href="docprocessing.html#reference-macros">reference macros</a>
+(metadata), style parameters, and
+<a href="docprocessing.html#start">START</a>,
+each chapter will begin on a fresh page and behave as expected.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Even if you work with monolithic, multi-chapter files, every
+chapter and its associated metadata plus <kbd>.START</kbd>
+still needs to be preceded by <kbd>.COLLATE</kbd>.
+</p>
+
+<div class="box-tip">
+<p class="tip">
+<span class="note">Note:</span>
+COLLATE assumes you are collating documents/files with similar
+type-style parameters hence there&#8217;s no need for PRINTSTYLE
+to appear after COLLATE, although if you&#8217;re collating
+documents that were created as separate files, chances are the
+PRINTSTYLE&#8217;s already there.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="box-tip">
+<p id="caution" class="tip">
+<b>Two words of caution:</b>
+</p>
+<ol style="margin-top: -1.25em; padding-bottom: .5em;">
+ <li>Do not collate documents of differing
+ PRINTSTYLES (i.e., don&#8217;t try to
+ collate a <kbd>TYPESET</kbd> document and <kbd>TYPEWRITE</kbd>
+ document).
+ </li>
+ <li>Use <kbd>.DOC_FAMILY</kbd> instead of
+ <kbd>.FAMILY</kbd> if, for some reason, you want to
+ change the family of all the document elements after
+ <kbd>.COLLATE</kbd>. <kbd>.FAMILY</kbd>, by itself, will
+ change the family of paragraph text only.
+ </li>
+</ol>
+</div>
+
+<!-- -COLLATE- -->
+
+<div class="macro-id-overline">
+<h3 id="collate" class="macro-id">collate</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class="box-macro-args">
+Macro: <b>COLLATE</b>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+The most basic (and most likely) collating situation looks like
+this:
+<br/>
+<span class="pre-in-pp">
+ .COLLATE
+ .CHAPTER 17
+ .START
+</span>
+A slightly more complex version of the same thing, for chapters
+that require their own titles, looks like this:
+<br/>
+<span class="pre-in-pp">
+ .COLLATE
+ .CHAPTER_TITLE "Geek Fatigue: Symptoms and Causes"
+ .START
+</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="box-tip" style="margin-top: -1em">
+<p class="tip">
+<span class="tip">Tip:</span>
+If the last line of text before <kbd>.COLLATE</kbd>
+falls too close to the bottom margin, or if the line is followed
+by a macro likely to cause a linebreak (e.g. <kbd>.LIST OFF</kbd> or
+<kbd>.IQ</kbd>), mom may output a superfluous blank page before
+the start of the following document.
+</p>
+
+<p class="tip-bottom" style="margin-top: -1em">
+In order to avoid this, insert
+<a href="docprocessing.html#EL"><kbd>.EL</kbd></a>
+after the last line of text, before <kbd>.COLLATE</kbd> and/or any
+concluding macros. For example,
+<br/>
+<span class="pre-in-pp">
+ some concluding text.\c
+ .EL
+ .COLLATE
+</span>
+or
+<br/>
+<span class="pre-in-pp">
+ some concluding text.\c
+ .EL
+ .LIST OFF
+ .COLLATE
+</span>
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="box-tip">
+<p class="tip">
+<span class="note">Note:</span>
+See the
+<a href="#caution">two words of caution</a>,
+above.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="rule-long"><hr/></div>
+
+<!-- Navigation links -->
+<table style="width: 100%; margin-top: 12px;">
+<tr>
+ <td style="width: 33%;"><a href="toc.html">Back to Table of Contents</a></td>
+ <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center;"><a href="#top">Top</a></td>
+ <td style="width: 33%; text-align: right;"><a href="cover.html">Next: Cover pages</a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class="bottom-spacer"><br/></div>
+
+</body>
+</html>