Re: Rotating troff 90 degrees?

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From: Chet A. Creider
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 11:28

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In article <1992Oct11.170038.18756@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih) writes:
>Alas, the system I'm on doesn't have groff.  It'll be a while before I get
>around to installing it.  Indeed, if I have to install a package myself,
>I might look at TeX some more (since it's free and has the tbl stuff?).
>
I don't understand the last sentence:
	(1) groff is also free.
	(2) TeX does not have 'the tbl stuff'.
	(3) IMHO working with tables in tbl is preferable by far to
	    working with them in LaTeX or (especially)(plain) TeX.

Chet Creider <creider@csd.uwo.ca>

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