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David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk> has taken the trouble to
investigate and correct some problems with my `rotating' package, and
a new version (1.7) is therefore available in the CTAN archives (eg
ftp.tex.ac.uk:pub/archive/macros/latex/contrib/rotating). Many thanks
to David for his thorough look!

Visible changes:

1) rotate and turn and sideways all now use \ignorespaces and \unskip to
   remove white space after the environment start
2) rotate and turn no longer have an extra space if the argument is a
   count register 
    \newcount\xxx
    \xxx=45
    \rotate{\xxx}
3) the \rotatedirection command is added:
   \rotatedirection{anticlockwise}
   makes rotate and turn rotate things in the positive direction if
   given a positive argument (actually
   any argument does this except \rotatedirection{clockwise}.

Sebastian Rahtz