Re: [Groff] Switching Page Orientation.

[Kees Zeelenberg]

Enclosed are ms-macros for starting and ending landscape-mode. After a call to 
LA, all input is
set in landscape until EA is encountered. I have used them successfully to 
rotate a full page
with wide tables; only the page heading is printed in portrait, as it should be 
in an otherwise
portrait printed paper. The main problem is not switching to landscape (to do 
this, simply
insert the string given at the top), but to ensure that the text is printed at 
the right place.
You should space down to the left-hand upper corner of the block that must be 
rotated, and
increase the page-length with this amount (since troff knows nothing about the 
switch to
landscape). The macros use a separate environment to achieve this. It would be 
more general to
divert the text, and use the width and the height of the diversion to measure 
the amount of
spacing.
The macros are for ms, but the basics will probably remain the same for mm.

Kees

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: "Ralph Corderoy" <address@hidden>
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Verzonden: zondag 5 november 2000 19:01
Onderwerp: [Groff] Switching Page Orientation.


>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like the page containing a diagram drawn using pic to be A4
> landscape format whilst the rest of the document remains A4 portrait.
>
> What's the best way to obtain this.  I'm using tmac.m.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Ralph.
>
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