Re: how do you rotate text?

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From: KUN YU
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 02:27

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>How do you rotate a bit of text 90 degrees?  Specifically, I want to use
>Gnuplot to make graphs using the TeX driver for output.  However, the default
>is to have the y-axis like
>
>                    |
>            y-axis  |
>                    |
>                    |_____________
>                        x-axis
>
>and I want it rotated counter-clockwise.
>TIA
>
>                                  | 
>Kevin Dorma                       | Hi, my Lyapunov exponent is 2.31.
>kdorma@ravana.eche.ualberta.ca    | What's yours?

Use rotate.sty, the last few lines contain doc for latex. To use, say
set yaxis "{\rotate[l]{\hbox{y-axis}}}" 2
I think this is almost right. You will find out why the "2" is needed.
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