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From: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: text upside down in TeX or LaTeX
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Date: 26 Mar 91 10:33:58 GMT
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In article <66407@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) writes:
|> I have seen rotate.sty or rotate.tex which handles postscripts. However one
|> needs a dvips/postscript printer in order to use rotate.sty[tex].

quite easy to do this with dvitops. because you can define regions in
the postcript output to manipulate you can rotate the block of text 
you want, and with nefarious TeX-ery you can make TeX see the block as
being its rotated size.

\newcount\regionnum

\def\newregion{\global\advance\regionnum by 1}
\def\region{reg\the\regionnum}

\newbox\rotatedtextbox

\def\PSrotated{\setbox\rotatedtextbox=\hbox\bgroup}
\def\endPSrotated{\egroup\newregion
	\special{dvitops: begin \region}%
        \rule{0mm}{\wd\rotatedtextbox}%
	\rule{\ht\rotatedtextbox}{0mm}%
	\mbox{}%
	\special{dvitops: origin \region}%
	\ht\rotatedtextbox=0mm \dp\rotatedtextbox=0mm \wd\rotatedtextbox=0mm%
	\box\rotatedtextbox%
	\special{dvitops: end}%
	\special{dvitops: rotate \region\space -90}%
        }



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