Re: Rotating troff 90 degrees?

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From: John Rupley
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 16:28

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In article <3868@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
>In article <1992Oct6.211220.20566@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih) writes:
>>I'm in need of being able to rotate a table and graph 90 degrees.
>>Is there any way to do this in troff?
>
>This isn't really "standard troff" functionality.  However, if you
>can generate postscript (particularly an EPS) from the table or graph,
>most versions of troff will allow you to include this postscript
>in your document.  That is, if you're driving postscript.

Am I missing the point here? Can one not, at an arbitrary page break in
the document, include the following?


	[portrait text]

PS commands to change from portrait to landscape
troff commands to change line length and page length to landscape

	[landscape text, tables (tbl) and figs (grap, pic, 
		or included PS)]

PS and troff commands for landscape back to portrait

	[portrait text]


John Rupley
Biochemistry
rupley@cs.arizona.edu

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Subject: Re: Rotating troff 90 degrees?
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