For about 4 years I have been occasionally trying to get right a set
of macros for performing arbitrary rotations of LaTeX material, using
a PostScript driver. A complete new system is here offered, a style option
`rotating.sty', which provides three environments

  - sideways
     rotates the contents through 90 degrees
  - rotate[#1]
     rotates the contents by [#1] degrees, leaving no space at all
  - turn[#1]
     rotates the contents by [#1] degrees, leaving the correct space
     taken up by the rotated box
This time I have got it right as regards all the points of the
compass, and the depth of TeX boxes.

There are also two environments `sidewaysfigure' and `sidewaystable'
which rotate an entire float through 90 degrees. 

The distribution consists of
   rotating.doc       documented style file
   rotating.sty       style file stripped of comments
   rotating.tex       driver file to print documented code, and
                      provide samples of rotation
   rotating.ps        PostScript version of documentation
   rot{01,02,03,04}.eps, cat.eps   PostScript files needed for
                                   documentation
   example.sty        style file needed for documentation

The user will need to have psfig1.8, and to use dvips, dvitops or textures as
their driver. If anyone adds code for another driver, I'd like to hear
about it.

Sebastian Rahtz
ArchaeoInformatica, 12 Cygnet Street, York Y02 1AG, UK
spqr@uk.ac.york.minster

All the files appear in the UK TeX Archive in
  [tex-archive.latex.contrib.rotating]


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