[comp.text] rotated text using pic under troff ?

bobm@agsm.unsw.oz (Robert Marks) (07/02/87)

Can anyone tell me how to print rotated text using troff, probably
using the pic preprocessor, so that, for example, a diagonal line
is labelled diagonally on a figure which contains normal (portrait)
text?  I guess it's possible to hack a PostScript command into the
troff input, but I'd like to avoid that, if possible (although those
suggestions gratefully received, too).

Thanks, Bob

Robert MARKS, Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New
              South Wales, PO Box 1, Kensington, NSW 2033, Australia.

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patwood@unirot.UUCP (Patrick Wood) (07/03/87)

I've a macro for devps that'll produce the proper PostScript for text
rotation and placement.

Pat Wood
Pipeline Associates, Inc.
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