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From: lamy@cs.toronto.edu (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Subject: Re: Landscape Mode in TeX
Message-ID: <90Jan12.180853est.3604@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Keywords: TeX, landscape mode, portrait mode
References: <1990Jan12.172337.3570@dvinci.usask.ca>
Date: 12 Jan 90 23:09:25 GMT
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No, there are no provisions in TeX/LaTeX to do such things.  In particular,
assuming that you want the page number to be at the normal position and
orientation, this would imply that there would be a way to specify character
rotation, something that the DVI format does not include.

The canonical way to do this on a PostScript printer is to generate the
rotated table separately, and include the PostScript code generated by the
device driver as if it was an illustration, using \special (assuming that you
can tell \special to rotate the illustration, else by hacking the PostScript).
A bit messy, but better than scissors and glue, because you only have to do
it once per table (as opposed to once per printout).

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@cs.utoronto.ca, uunet!cs.utoronto.ca!lamy
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4