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- From: orloff@surya4.cern.ch (Jean Orloff)
- Subject: Re: how do you rotate text?
- In-Reply-To: ky04@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu's message of 5 Nov 92 02:27:00 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:02:09 GMT
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- >>>>> On 5 Nov 92 02:27:00 GMT, ky04@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (KUN YU) said:
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- >How do you rotate a bit of text 90 degrees? Specifically, I want to use
- >Gnuplot to make graphs using the TeX driver for output. However, the default
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- KUN> Use rotate.sty, the last few lines contain doc for latex. To use,
- KUN> say set yaxis "{\rotate[l]{\hbox{y-axis}}}" 2 I think this is
- KUN> almost right. You will find out why the "2" is needed. --
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- Any idea how this works? does it use PostScript to rotate the fonts? I
- just can't imagine that you can rotate a piece of text from within
- TeX...
-
- Sincerely,
- Jean
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