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I finally found a good excuse to try out Typst: Automating the layout of content for tiny 8-page booklets (or zines? not sure what they are called).

My approach was to break up the process into two stages:

1. Render the content of the booklet to a normal document.
2. Arrange the pages of this document onto one A4 page for printing and cutting a booklet.

On my blog I've written up details and links to an example project.

This is a pretty niche use case but it was an interesting first project and taught me a lot. You could probably use the same approach to layout a 16-page booklet like the one shown here.