stockton@kira.uucp (Ronald G Stockton) (12/06/90)
Hi,
I have spent the last two days trying to get a LaTeX table put into
landscape mode without success. I have read the User's Guide (by LL)
and the local guide, as well as looking through several of the style
files for hints.
I came up with the following: read the portland.sty file in, and
then either use \landscape, or \begin{landscape} & \end{landscape}.
It even accepts these two commands as "valid" but doesn't seem to
be doing anything with them. At least, xdvi and prdvi are still printing
the table out in normal, non-landscape format. Any help would be
appreciated.
Thanks in Advance,
Greg Stockton
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---------------------------------------------------------------marcel@cs.caltech.edu (Marcel van der Goot) (12/07/90)
In <1990Dec6.135120.10637@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Ronald G Stockton (stockton@kira.uucp) has problems printing in landscape mode. > then either use \landscape, or \begin{landscape} & \end{landscape}. > It even accepts these two commands as "valid" but doesn't seem to > be doing anything with them. At least, xdvi and prdvi are still printing > the table out in normal, non-landscape format. Any help would be > appreciated. When using TeX (or LaTeX) you have to tell TeX how large the text area is. In plain TeX this is done by adjusting \hsize and \vsize. Presumably, \landscape, or \begin{landscape} does exactly that for you. This affects the line breaking and page breaking. However, TeX doesn't care about the actual physical size of the paper, which is usually larger than the text area; in fact it has no idea what that size is. Therefore, whether your output should be printed on 8.5in*11in (letter), 11in*8.5in (landscape letter), 21cm*(21*\sqrt(2))cm (A4), or whatever other size you may want, this is not part of the dvi file. For all TeX knows you are printing on sheets of 15ft square and cut out the page you actually want. Therefore, your dvi-driver still has to give the proper command to the printer to choose the right paper size (i.e., print in landscape mode). At my installation that is done by using the "-L" flag (of the printing program, not of TeX). I have no idea how to instruct your dvi-drivers to do this, nor whether they can print in landscape mode at all. Also, note that this only applies to printing a whole document in landscape mode. TeX doesn't help you if you want only part of your document rotated, but there are some PostScript hacks that can be included in your TeX source to do this (rotate.tex/rotate.sty). Of course, that requires a PostScript printer. Marcel van der Goot marcel@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu