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From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Direct rotation of text within TeX
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Date: 6 Jul 90 12:39:22 GMT
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In-reply-to: walter@hpsad.HP.COM's message of 3 Jul 90 17:50:19 GMT

In article <13590010@hpsad.HP.COM> walter@hpsad.HP.COM (Walter Coole) writes:

   I've been interested in doing this, too, and haven't done it any
   slicker than with a separate dvi.  The only approach that seems to fit
   TeX's model for how a printer works is to use fonts that are rotated,
   but it seems hard to allow TeX's placement to work well.  Another
   approach is to write a dvi filter that allows a \special{landscape},
   but that has portability problems.
see an article by Alan Hoenig in Tugboat 11.2, all about rotated fonts
with Metafont.

personally, I see no use for printers that don't have PostScript, so I
just rotate away to my heart's content with \special facilities\ldots{}
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