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From: mikew@wheeler.wrcr.unr.edu (Mike Whitbeck)
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Subject: Re: Rotated tables in TeX documents
Keywords: table, landscape, LaTeX
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Date: 8 Sep 89 06:41:11 GMT
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In article <1697@murdu.oz> morrow@murdu.oz (Christopher Morrow) writes:
|Often wide tables in books (tabulations of biological data for
|example) are set in landscape mode.  Often the page number is in the
|normal postion.  I doubt if this is possible with standard LaTeX but
|if any one can suggest how to do this I would appreciate it.  Failing
|that could I please add this to a TeX wish list.
|
|OzTeX provides a facility to print in landscape mode but all pages of
|the document would be thus printed.  Indeed the ability to rotate text
|does not seem to be present in LaTeX.
|
|Thanks for reading
|Chris Morrow
|morrow@murdu.oz.au

Would be really useful! When I have one or a few wide tables
that need to go into landscape I use a separate latex file for
each. I have a wide.sty that helps set things up and macros that
ask for the page number and Table number. I have to process the
main latex files to find what these should be (just like in
troff :-}  ). In the main files where a landscaped table is
needed I put it on a separate page so I get a numbered page and
table number-- next run the wide tables off then use them to
replace the blank pages in the main document! The imagen print
driver can print pages rotated into landscape mode.

Hmmm, can postscript rotate a chunk of output in the middle of a
file? If so then using a PS device maybe one could ...?
Something to ponder!