Bug#122635: Unclear documentation of rotating.sty

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

reassign 122635 texlive-latex-recommended-doc 
found 122635 2009-7
forwarded 122635 rf10@cam.ac.uk
stop

Dear Robin,

One of our users complained about rotating.sty not working.  After
some investigation, it turned out that he hadn't realized the
necessity of running the DVI file through dvips in order to see
the effects.  The following patch to rotating.dtx adds a paragraph
that makes that requirement clear:

--- rotating.dtx.orig	2009-03-28 21:06:30.000000000 +0100
+++ rotating.dtx	2010-01-26 13:50:57.204704700 +0100
@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@
 % \item a variety of other rotation-related commands and environments.
 % \end{itemize}
 %
+% Because |rotating| uses PostScript |\special| commands, you will
+% only see its effects if you create a PostScript (or PDF) file using
+% |dvips|, |pdflatex|, or a similar tool.
+%
 % \section{Usage} 
 %
 % \subsection{Package options}

Please consider to apply it to rotating.dtx (and hence to the
rotating doc).

Many thanks,
  Hilmar
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