New answers tagged printing
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Expanding on Will Robertson's suggestion, here's some code that uses the typearea package to calculate margins and text height / width for A5 pages, and then using twocolumn mode to simulate two A5 pages on one A4 page.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[twoside,a5paper,DIV=calc]{typearea}
\makeatletter
\@twocolumntrue
\@twosidefalse
\makeatother
...
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What about simply set the text in white colour for the coloured version and for the text version in black but with a wildcard of the same size as the image?
Maybe it's not elegant, but seems to work.
%http://mirrors.ctan.org/info/examples/lgc2/pstricks/tiger.eps
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{blindtext}
...
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Screen? Previews? They didn't exist at the beginning.
edit:
it has been asked how knuth viewed his "first page". it was definitely not on screen. it was most likely printed out on the xerox xgp which was installed at the stanford ai (artificial intelligence) lab (sail). in the book "companion to the papers of donald knuth", don says (pp.58-59) that he'd ...
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Awesome contents that worth reading:
Thoughts on TUG 2010 by Barbara Beeton, regarding the environments in 80's for TeX;
The Design of TeX and METAFONT: A Retrospective by Nelson H.F. Beebe, and
TeX82, Version 1.0 for Berkeley Unix, 4.1 and 4.2 bsd, an email from Richard Furuta to announce the availability of TeX82, Version 1.0, for
Berkeley Unix, version ...
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Note that the very first version of TeX - TeX78 - was written to allow for better typesetting of Knuths books - especially the math heavy bits - not as such for general consumption. The rewrite into TeX82 (along with MetaFont) was as literate programs (where you write an essay on your program containing snippets of actual code which was then assembled into ...
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