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From: dsmith@applga.aa.cad.slb.com (J. Daniel Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Help with Strange sort of Tabular environment
Summary: it can be done
Keywords: TeX, PostScript, dvips
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.132618.526@applga.aa.cad.slb.com>
Date: 3 Oct 90 13:26:18 GMT
References: <1990Sep22.005907.5826@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1990Sep23.161653.11819@contact.uucp>
Organization: Schlumberger CAD/CAM ; Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <1990Sep23.161653.11819@contact.uucp> ben@contact.uucp (Ben Eng) writes:
>In <1990Sep22.005907.5826@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> gabriele@riverdale.toronto.edu (Mark Gabriele ) writes:
>>labels the columns.  The text should be ascending at an angle of
>>about 60 degrees elevation from the horizontal.  Can anyone suggest
>
>I have never seen any TeX document that had rotated text.  It sounds
A recent issue of the TUGboat has an article about generating rotated
fonts.  One of the examples is doing something just like this.  If you
don't belong to TUG, you should join.  Its not that expensive
(discounts for students) and the TUGboat is an invaluable resource, as
can be seen from this example.

Also, several DVI->PS drivers allow PostScript code to be included in a
DVI file.  The 'dvips' driver package includes some macros for
rotating TeX text using PostScript.

>It sounds like you should use a WYSIWYG type DTP program instead if you
I would never want to step down to a WYSIWYG package :-)

   Dan
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