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From: jdolter@eecs.umich.edu (James W. Dolter)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Problems with sideways tables in LaTeX
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Date: 24 Mar 91 17:37:04 GMT
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In-Reply-To: marty@puppsr.Princeton.EDU's message of 23 Mar 91 19:01:55 GMT

>>>>> Regarding Problems with sideways tables in LaTeX; marty@puppsr.Princeton.EDU (Marty Ryba) adds:

marty> I've been trying to define a new environment that uses the macros in
marty> rotate.tex (is rotate.sty different??? I haven't seen it) to make a
marty> table sideways.  It seems straightforward, but I can't seem to be able
marty> to define or find the box around the table in order to rotate it.
marty> I've tried (in the environment definition) stuff like:

marty> [stuff deleted]{\begin{table}#1   %starts table environment}

What I have ended up doing lately for rotated figures and rotated tables
is below.


It defines to environments rotatedfigure and rotatedtable that
fit along with the regular table and figure floats.  Most of the
rotated float stuff is modified right out of latex.tex.

I just add this stuff to rotate.sty that is distributed with 
Tomas Rokickis' dvips fro labrea.stanford.edu.

It's not the cleanest but the format check deadline was getting very close.

\def\@rotatedfloat#1{\@ifnextchar[{\@rotatedxfloat{#1}}{\edef\@tempa{\noexpand\@rotatedxfloat
    {#1}[\csname fps@#1\endcsname]}\@tempa}}

\def\@rotatedxfloat#1[#2]{\ifhmode \@bsphack\@floatpenalty -\@Mii\else
   \@floatpenalty-\@Miii\fi\def\@captype{#1}\ifinner
      \@parmoderr\@floatpenalty\z@
    \else\@next\@currbox\@freelist{\@tempcnta\csname ftype@#1\endcsname
       \multiply\@tempcnta\@xxxii\advance\@tempcnta\sixt@@n
       \@tfor \@tempa :=#2\do
                        {\if\@tempa h\advance\@tempcnta \@ne\fi
                         \if\@tempa t\advance\@tempcnta \tw@\fi
                         \if\@tempa b\advance\@tempcnta 4\relax\fi
                         \if\@tempa p\advance\@tempcnta 8\relax\fi
         }\global\count\@currbox\@tempcnta}\@fltovf\fi
    \global\setbox\@currbox\vbox\bgroup 
%    \boxmaxdepth\z@     % commented out 15 Dec 87
    \hsize\textheight \@parboxrestore
	\setbox\@rotbox=\vbox\bgroup}

\def\l@rotatedfigure{\@dottedtocline{1}{\l@listindent@}{2.3em}}

\let\c@rotatedfigure\c@figure
\let\p@rotatedfigure\p@figure
\let\therotatedfigure\thefigure
\def\fps@rotatedfigure{tbp}
\def\ftype@rotatedfigure{1}
\def\ext@rotatedfigure{lof}
\def\fnum@rotatedfigure{Figure \thefigure}
\def\rotatedfigure{\@rotatedfloat{rotatedfigure}}
\let\endrotatedfigure\end@float

\let\l@rotatedtable\l@rotatedfigure
\let\c@rotatedtable\c@table
\let\p@rotatedtable\p@table
\let\therotatedtable\thetable
\def\fps@rotatedtable{tbp}
\def\ftype@rotatedtable{2}
\def\ext@rotatedtable{lot}
\def\fnum@rotatedtable{Table \thetable}
\def\rotatedtable{\@rotatedfloat{rotatedtable}}
\let\endrotatedtable\end@float

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