Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!goya!colon!jjsf From: jjsf@gmv.es (Julio Sanchez) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Rotated text Message-ID: <1625@colon.gmv.es> Date: 19 Mar 90 09:09:20 GMT References: <1990Mar13.061110.11339@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <1622@colon.gmv.es> Reply-To: jsanchez@gmv.es (Julio Sanchez) Organization: Grupo de Mecanica del Vuelo, S.A. (GMV), Madrid, Spain Lines: 36 In article spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) writes: >>>>>> 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 >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} I have not been clear enough. I also need the caption to be rotated. To be precise, I need portrait page headers and landscape body. >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. I do it differently. I was following the method used by Rockicki. It builds a box of the appropriate rotated size. Essentially you put inside the box a vskip of the full size (i.e. the *width* of the material being inserted), then the \special and a \vss. It works in many cases, even in LaTeX. Now the difference is that you are bulding a box that will not be contributed to the main vertical list. For doing what I want, a new float is needed. Moreover, \end@float, if I have remembered its name right, needs changes because the material is contributed to \@currlist differently, so I wrote a substitute.