Re: Rotating troff 90 degrees?

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From: Vidiot
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 03:20

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In article <JJC.92Oct9114032@jclark.jclark.com> jjc@jclark.com (James Clark) writes:
<In article <4232@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) 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?
<
<   Not that I know of.  Troff is an old portrait format formatter.  The GNU groff
<   program will let you print the whole document in landscape, but not a single
<   page.
<
<You can do it with groff -Tps.  For example
<
[... example deleted ...]

Gee, I would have never thought of that.

Thanks for the pointer, I too will keep it handy.
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: Rotating troff 90 degrees?
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Date: 10 Oct 92 03:20:51 GMT
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