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scavo@cie.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo) writes:

>How do I get dvidvi to format a document two pages per side
>of 8.5 x 11" paper in landscape?  (I think this is called 
>"two up" but I'm not sure...)

>Looking at Gary Levin's twoup.sty, it appears that 

>  dvidvi '2:0(-0.35in,-0.25in),1(4.65in,-0.25in)' old.dvi new.dvi

>should work, but it doesn't, at least not with Timothy Murphy's 
>recent (and appreciated!) port of dvidvi to the Macintosh.


Thanks for the kind words!

I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do,
but I think you must have a "-m" switch anyway.
The heading of dvidvi.c
(FTP-ed from labrea.stanford.edu directory pub
13 January 1993),
which I ported to the Mac (with essentially no changes), 
reads:

 *   This program converts dvi files to dvi files;
 *   the command line options are:
 *
 *      page n is first page selected         -f n
 *      page n is last page selected          -l n
 *      print at most n pages                 -n n
 *      include pages (ranges allowed)        -i { n1..n2 | n1 }[,...]
 *      exclude pages (ranges allowed)        -x { n1..n2 | n1 }[,...]
 *      work in quiet mode                    -q
 *      reverse pages                         -r
 *      select even                           -m 2:1
 *      select odd                            -m 2:0
 *      print both on same page               -m 2:0,1(5.5in,0in)
 *      do folded brochures                   -m 4:-3,0(5.5in,0in)
 *                                            -m 4:1,-2(5.5in,0in)
 *      etc.

Not sure what that "etc" comprises!

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
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