Re: Rotating LaTeX material
Dirk> I'd like to rotate a table on a slide. I tried the rotating package
Dirk> from CTAN, and the \rotatebox{}{} command described in graphics.sty
Dirk> and graphicx.sty (from Debian's ltxgraph package), but nothing works
Dirk> as described for example in the LaTeX Companion on pp320-327.
Rob> What kind of results are you seeing? If you can't see the correct
Rob> results in xdvi then try running the dvi file through dvips and then
Rob> looking at it with ghostview. I have noticed that sometimes (esp with
Rob> postscript tricks like rotation) xdvi may lie to you, showing an error
Rob> when in fact everything's fine.
100% correct. Being so used to xdvi showing me my eps graphics by using gs, I
expected this to be rotated in xdvi. It isn't, but as you point out, all is
fine in a ghostview preview.
Thanks a million, Rob, my faith in the LaTeX2e team is completely restored :-)
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Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
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