macphed@herald.usask.ca (Ian MacPhedran) (01/13/90)
Hello; One of my users came by with a TeX question which I didn't have the answer to, so I thought I'd go to the experts here. Q: Is it possible to set up one page of a TeX document in landscape mode (i.e. text parallel to the long direction of the page), with the rest of the document in normal, portrait mode? My answer was no, but I couldn't really find any support for this answer. Is this possible? Thanks. Ian. Ian MacPhedran, Engineering Computer Centre, University of Saskatchewan. 2B13 Engineering Building, U. of S. Campus, Saskatoon, Sask., CANADA S7N 0W0 macphed@dvinci.USask.CA macphedran@sask.USask.CA macphedran@sask.BITNET
lamy@cs.toronto.edu (Jean-Francois Lamy) (01/13/90)
No, there are no provisions in TeX/LaTeX to do such things. In particular, assuming that you want the page number to be at the normal position and orientation, this would imply that there would be a way to specify character rotation, something that the DVI format does not include. The canonical way to do this on a PostScript printer is to generate the rotated table separately, and include the PostScript code generated by the device driver as if it was an illustration, using \special (assuming that you can tell \special to rotate the illustration, else by hacking the PostScript). A bit messy, but better than scissors and glue, because you only have to do it once per table (as opposed to once per printout). Jean-Francois Lamy lamy@cs.utoronto.ca, uunet!cs.utoronto.ca!lamy Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4