handcock@numenor.watson.ibm.com (Mark S. Handcock) (06/28/90)
I have a page of text that I would like to produce in TeX and print in landscape mode. In the past I have adjusted hsize/vsize and used 'iptex -L' to print the pages separately. Is there a way to rotate the page when it is embedded in a document, and so be able to print it together? That is, a way to tell TeX to rotate by 90 degrees the following page/box? All ideas welcome Mark
walter@hpsad.HP.COM (Walter Coole) (07/04/90)
I've been interested in doing this, too, and haven't done it any
slicker than with a separate dvi. The only approach that seems to fit
TeX's model for how a printer works is to use fonts that are rotated,
but it seems hard to allow TeX's placement to work well. Another
approach is to write a dvi filter that allows a \special{landscape},
but that has portability problems.spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (07/06/90)
In article <13590010@hpsad.HP.COM> walter@hpsad.HP.COM (Walter Coole) writes:
I've been interested in doing this, too, and haven't done it any
slicker than with a separate dvi. The only approach that seems to fit
TeX's model for how a printer works is to use fonts that are rotated,
but it seems hard to allow TeX's placement to work well. Another
approach is to write a dvi filter that allows a \special{landscape},
but that has portability problems.
see an article by Alan Hoenig in Tugboat 11.2, all about rotated fonts
with Metafont.
personally, I see no use for printers that don't have PostScript, so I
just rotate away to my heart's content with \special facilities\ldots{}
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