Help with Strange sort of Tabular environment

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2 total messages Started by Mark Gabriele Sat, 22 Sep 1990 04:59

Author: Mark Gabriele
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 1990 04:59

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I am attempting to coerce LaTeX into drawing a 2-dimensional matrix 
which has labels on the rows *and on the columns*.  The appearance
I wish to achieve is this:
 

                      /    /    /    /    /
                     /    /    /    /    /
                    /    /    /    /    /
                   /    /    /    /    /
                  /    /    /    /    /
                 ---------------------
     row 1 name  |    |    |    |    |
                 ---------------------
     row 2 name  |    |    |    |    |
                 ---------------------
     row 3 name  |    |    |    |    |
                 ---------------------
    
       ...etc.
 
Where the areas represented by "/" should actually be the text which
labels the columns.  The text should be ascending at an angle of
about 60 degrees elevation from the horizontal.  Can anyone suggest
a way to do this?  Thanks in advance.
 
=Mark (gabriele@hub.toronto.edu)

Re: Help with Strange sort of Tabular environment

Author: Ben Eng
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 1990 16:16

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In <1990Sep22.005907.5826@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> gabriele@riverdale.toronto.edu (Mark Gabriele ) writes:
>Where the areas represented by "/" should actually be the text which
>labels the columns.  The text should be ascending at an angle of
>about 60 degrees elevation from the horizontal.  Can anyone suggest
>a way to do this?  Thanks in advance.

I have never seen any TeX document that had rotated text.  It sounds
like a lost cause to me.  Perhaps it would be possible if your TeX
supports embedded postscript, but then you probably won't be able to
position the text exactly, and you wouldn't be able to preview it very
easily.

It sounds like you should use a WYSIWYG type DTP program instead if you
want rotated text.  I think there is something on the Sun that is
WYSIWYG but outputs in TeX format... Maybe UofT has it somewhere?

Ben
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