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Re: Rotating troff 90 degrees?

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From: Alvin Chia-Hua Shih
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:13
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In <1992Oct12.112817.3127@julian.uwo.ca> creider@taptet.sscl.uwo.ca (Chet A. Creider) writes:

>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'.
Oops!  I somehow thought that groff was just the troff-equivalent formatter
without the tools.  I'm now aware that I'm mistaken.
>	(3) IMHO working with tables in tbl is preferable by far to
>	    working with them in LaTeX or (especially)(plain) TeX.
Friends of mine have used LaTeX tables and they didn't seem too traumatized.
:-)

However, can you suggest where I might find something like "grap"?

>Chet Creider <creider@csd.uwo.ca>

Thanks.

ACS
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