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In article <laksboINNhoj@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu
 (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
>In article <1992Sep4.184049.1@linus.claremont.edu>,
 dhosek@linus.claremont.edu writes:
>|> 'tis a rather interesteing problem.
>
>I agree that in contrast to some of the questions on this forum
>this problem is actually a legitimate one,
>but I don't see a solution to it. Inside TeX that is.
>
>Dvi merging programs exist that can post-process the dvi file to get
>two pages lined up on one sheet.

Gosh, Victor, as long as you were posting anyway to affirm the legitimacy
of the question and the existence of a solution, couldn't you have
gone ahead and actually *identified* one of these programs? ;-)

Tom Rokicki's "dvidvi" program can do this.  Just process your
document in the ordinary one-page-per-page way -- this will allow
you to get page references right without undue pain -- then use
dvidvi to gang up the pages for 2-up printing.  dvidvi reads a
dvi file and writes another dvi file with the pages of the original
reordered and/or ganged; it can be used for printing booklets for
saddle-stitching, greeting cards, two-sided documents, etc.  It's
certainly one of my favorite TeX-related utilities.  You can get it by
FTP from labrea.stanford.edu (in the /pub directory I believe; at any
rate it's in the same directory as the dvips sources).  You may need to
use the "landscape" option of your device driver if you're printing
two pages onto one on letter size paper in the obvious way.

--Cameron Smith
  cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu
  (completely unwilling to venture a guess as to what distinguishes
  "legitimate" requests for assistance from "illegitimate" ones...)