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From: morrison@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Rick Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Rotated tables in TeX documents
Keywords: table, landscape, LaTeX
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Date: 8 Sep 89 17:30:23 GMT
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Reply-To: morrison@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Rick Morrison)
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I wanted this capability and eventually resorted to modifying the page output
macro defined in latex.tex. I haven't had the perseverance to hack
tabulars, but if you are satisfied with landscape tabbing (starting on a
new page) you are welcome to what I have. It relies on a locally
hacked version of dvi2ps to overlay pages (you need this to get headers and
page numbers oriented in portrait and the body of the page oriented in
landscape). I have also found it convenient to use my own versions of article,
report and book in order to define both landscape and portrait page
layouts in the same document style (yes I named the somthing else).
It isn't pretty but it works.

BTW, the problem with landscape tabulars
is that they float. Since this technique uses \specials to invoke
landscape and overlay in the postscript printer you _must_ know when
the tabular is going to be emmited.
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