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DVIBOOK(1)		     General Commands Manual		      DVIBOOK(1)

NAME
     dvibook - rearrange pages in DVI file into signatures

SYNOPSIS
     dvibook  [  -q ] [ -s<num> ] [ -r ] [ -i infile ] [ -o outfile ] [ infile [
     outfile ] ]

DESCRIPTION
     Dvibook rearranges pages from a DVI file  produced  by  TeX  into	``signa-
     tures''  for  printing books or booklets, creating a new DVI file usable by
     any of the TeX conversion programs.

     The -s option selects the size of signature which will be used. The  signa-
     ture  size  is the number of sides which will be folded and bound together;
     the number given should be a multiple of four. The default is  to	use  one
     signature	for  the whole file. Extra blank sides will be added if the file
     does not contain a multiple of four pages.

     By default, dvibook rearranges the pages into left-hand side binding signa-
     tures; the -r option switches to right-hand side binding  signatures.  This
     might be useful for pTeX vertical writing (tate-kumi) documents.

     Dvibook  normally	prints	the page numbers of the pages rearranged; the -q
     option suppresses this.

AUTHOR
     Angus Duggan, from dviselect(1), by Chris Torek,  University  of  Maryland.
     Currently maintained as part of TeX Live (https://tug.org/texlive).

SEE ALSO
     dvitodvi(1), dviconcat(1), dviselect(1), latex(1), tex(1)
     MC-TeX User's Guide

BUGS
     Dvibook  does  not  adjust  the parameters in the postamble; however, since
     these values are normally used only to size certain structures in the  out-
     put  conversion  programs, and the parameters never need to be adjusted up-
     ward, this has not proven to be a problem.

TeX Live			8 September 2020		      DVIBOOK(1)

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