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From: idall@augean.ua.OZ.AU (Ian Dall)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,aus.tex
Subject: Rotating figures in TeX/LaTeX
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Date: 1 Dec 90 10:58:57 GMT
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Michael Lawley supplied me with a rotate.tex file, unfortunately it didn't
do what I wanted in the case of included psfig postscript figures.
(It also needed slight changes to the format of the \secial argument
to work with dvi3ps).

Well, I am making available the results of my labours. There is a file
pub/misc/rotate.tar.Z available for anonymous ftp from augean.ua.oz.au.

It contains two tex files rot.tex and rot.sty which are included into
ones tex or latex document. For example you can do

\documentstyle[...,rot]{...}
.
.
.
\begin{rotate}
\centerline{\psfig{figure=....}}
\caption{....}
\end{rotate}

if you want to rotate the caption as well, do

\begin{rotate}
\vbox{\centerline{\psfig{figure=....}}
\caption{....}}
\end{rotate}


Rotate takes an optional argument l,r,f or u for left, right, upsidedown
or flipped. The default is left.

For this to work with dvi3ps, you need to replace basic.pro and
psfig.pro with versions supplied with rotate. I have no idea about
dvips. The rotate.tar.Z file is intended to be unpacked in the
top directory of the dvi3ps distribution.