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From: marty@puppsr.Princeton.EDU (Marty Ryba)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Problems with sideways tables in LaTeX
Keywords: GRRRRR!
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Date: 23 Mar 91 19:01:55 GMT
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I've been trying to define a new environment that uses the macros in
rotate.tex (is rotate.sty different??? I haven't seen it) to make a
table sideways.  It seems straightforward, but I can't seem to be able
to define or find the box around the table in order to rotate it.
I've tried (in the environment definition) stuff like:

{\begin{table}#1   %starts table environment}
{\rotl\@currbox \end{table}}

and 

{\begin{table}#1  \global\setbox\rotbox\vbox\bgroup
\hsize\textheight}%        Make my own box inside the table float
{\par\vskip\z@\egroup \rotl\rotbox \end{table}}

but the latter gives me a "control \global not permitted between \csname
\endcsname" error.  I'm at the end of my (limited) rope.  Any ideas???

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