Leporello tips?

Question

Is it some packages to help users to create a leporello edition ? To regard the creases, the long size paper, etc. (leporello is an edition in accordeon) i.e.: example of leporello

Answer 1

By a curious coincidence, I just made the acquaintance of pgfpages.sty. As it turns out, with a little work it can do exactly this sort of layout -- and a good deal else besides. I read about this in the PGF manual and looked at pgfpages.sty for inspiration. This has been a very interesting exercise! My apologies for the length of the code. Clearly, this could be tailored easily to your exact needs.

I've added some comments in the code.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[papersize={7in,10in}]{geometry}
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{everypage}%% For fold marks

\pgfpagesdeclarelayout{Leporello16}
{
  \edef\pgfpageoptionheight{\the\paperheight} 
  \edef\pgfpageoptionwidth{\the\paperwidth}
  \edef\pgfpageoptionborder{0pt}
}
{
  \pgfpagesphysicalpageoptions
  {%
    logical pages=16,%
    physical height=\pgfpageoptionheight,%
    physical width=\pgfpageoptionwidth%
  }
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{1}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=.0625\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.03125\pgfphysicalwidth}{.5\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{2}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=.0625\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.09375\pgfphysicalwidth}{.5\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{3}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=.0625\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.15625\pgfphysicalwidth}{.5\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{4}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=.0625\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.21875\pgfphysicalwidth}{.5\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{5}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=.0625\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.28125\pgfphysicalwidth}{.5\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{6}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=.0625\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.34375\pgfphysicalwidth}{.5\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{7}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=.0625\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.40625\pgfphysicalwidth}{.5\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{8}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=.0625\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.46875\pgfphysicalwidth}{.5\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{9}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=.0625\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.53125\pgfphysicalwidth}{.5\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{10}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=.0625\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.59375\pgfphysicalwidth}{.5\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{11}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=.0625\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.65625\pgfphysicalwidth}{.5\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{12}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=.0625\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.71875\pgfphysicalwidth}{.5\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{13}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=.0625\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.78125\pgfphysicalwidth}{.5\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{14}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=.0625\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.84375\pgfphysicalwidth}{.5\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{15}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=.0625\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.90625\pgfphysicalwidth}{.5\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{16}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=.0625\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.96875\pgfphysicalwidth}{.5\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
}

%% Comment-out the following line while you prepare the content.
%% Uncomment-out the following line when you want to create the Leporello document.
\pgfpagesuselayout{Leporello16}[physical paper height = 10in, physical paper width = 112in]

\pagestyle{empty}

%% From everypage.sty -- adds the fold marks:
\AddEverypageHook{\tikz[remember picture,overlay] \draw[thin] (current page.north east) -- ++(0,-1);}

\begin{document}

\centering

\foreach \i in {1,...,16}{%
\resizebox{!}{2in}{\Huge\i}%
\clearpage
}

\end{document}

This is the end result, greatly reduced:

Later

It occurred to me that this would be useless without fold marks. I have indicated, in a general sort of way, how to add them -- noted in the code. The first time you try this, you'll have to TeX it twice in order to see the fold marks.

Much later

The OP has asked for a vertical example. Here is a 4-page example:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[papersize={7in,10in}]{geometry}
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{everypage}%% For fold marks

\pgfpagesdeclarelayout{Leporello4v}
{
  \edef\pgfpageoptionheight{\the\paperheight} 
  \edef\pgfpageoptionwidth{\the\paperwidth}
  \edef\pgfpageoptionborder{0pt}
}
{
  \pgfpagesphysicalpageoptions
  {%
    logical pages=4,%
    physical height=\pgfpageoptionheight,%
    physical width=\pgfpageoptionwidth%
  }
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{1}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=0.25\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.5\pgfphysicalwidth}{.875\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{2}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=0.25\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.5\pgfphysicalwidth}{.625\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{3}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=0.25\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.5\pgfphysicalwidth}{.375\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{4}
  {%
    border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,%
    resized width=\pgfphysicalwidth,%
    resized height=0.25\pgfphysicalheight,%
    center=\pgfpoint{.5\pgfphysicalwidth}{.125\pgfphysicalheight}%
  }%
}


\pgfpagesuselayout{Leporello4v}[physical paper height = 40in, physical paper width = 7in]

\pagestyle{empty}

%% From everypage.sty:
\AddEverypageHook{%
    \tikz[remember picture,overlay] \draw[thin] (current page.south east) -- ++(-1,0);%
}

\begin{document}

\centering

\foreach \i in {1,...,4}{%
\resizebox{!}{2in}{\Huge\i}%
\clearpage
}

\end{document}

And it looks like this:

Answer 2

I do not know any package specifically designed for this purpose and closest thing that comes to my mind is what @doncherry mentioned in their comment. A not so elegant workaround can be achieved through the use of geometry and multicol packages. geometry package helps you to define your particular paper size while multicol allows you to create virtual (not in technical sense) pages. Here is a minimal example with \columnbreak and option for paper folds indicator:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[paperwidth=50cm, paperheight=15cm,margin=1cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{multicol}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt}

\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\begin{multicols*}{4}{
    \lipsum[1-4]
    \columnbreak
    \lipsum[5-10]
}
\end{multicols*}
\end{document}

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