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From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Rotated text
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Date: 16 Mar 90 08:57:42 GMT
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In-reply-to: jjsf@gmv.es's message of 14 Mar 90 14:39:50 GMT

>>>>> On 14 Mar 90 14:39:50 GMT, jjsf@gmv.es (Julio Sanchez) said:
 > providing a style option for LaTeX that would allow the inclusion
 > of wide figures or tables in landscape mode in documents that
 > are otherwise portrait, keeping the same page layout through the
 > document. I have had to fiddle with a lot of
 > LaTeX internals, as I want them to be floats and appear on
maybe I am missing something, but surely it is no more complicated
than:
 \begin{figure}
 \begin{sideways}
 \begin{tabular}{...}
   ...
 \end{tabular}
 \end{sideways}
 \end{figure}

assuming your `sideways' environment takes its contents, and turns
them sideways, leaving appropriate TeX space with struts (easy to work
out with a 90 degree turn). I have done this many times, and it never
struck me as a problem.

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