Landscape typesetting on portrait page

Landscape typesetting on portrait page

[John Devereux]

Hi,

I have a document containing a wide table. I would like to have the
table rotated 90 degrees, along with the text on that page (which
would be in three columns above the table). So I would have (view in
fixed pitch)

 --------------------
     page header
 --------------------

 |   ||   xxxxxx
 |   ||   xxxxxx
 |   ||   xxxxxx
 |   ||   xxxxxx
 |   ||         
 |   ||   xxxxxx
 |   ||   xxxxxx
 |   ||   xxxxxx  <--- all this is sideways!
 |   ||   xxxxxx
 |   ||         
 |   ||   xxxxxx
 |   ||   xxxxxx
 |   ||   xxxxxx
 |   ||   xxxxxx

 --------------------
     page footer
 --------------------

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,

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John Devereux
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Re: Landscape typesetting on portrait page

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2008-03-06 um 12:04 schrieb John Devereux:

> I have a document containing a wide table. I would like to have the
> table rotated 90 degrees, along with the text on that page (which
> would be in three columns above the table). So I would have (view in
> fixed pitch)

Did you try \rotate at all?

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Re: Landscape typesetting on portrait page

[John Devereux]

Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net> writes:

> Am 2008-03-06 um 12:04 schrieb John Devereux:
>
>> I have a document containing a wide table. I would like to have the
>> table rotated 90 degrees, along with the text on that page (which
>> would be in three columns above the table). So I would have (view in
>> fixed pitch)
>
> Did you try \rotate at all?

[...]

Hi,

I did try that (after a suggestion off-list from Mojca). Unfortunately
columns did not seem to work, and things like the textwidth were all
wrong. I don't really know enough to fix it all in a reasonable time.

As a workaround I did try making the entire page landscape (and
removing headers and footers). But that did not seem to play well with
imposition - I tried lots of combinations and could not get it right.

So for now I am going to just "transpose" the table, i.e. exchange rows and
columns so it is tall instead of wide.

But I would still be interested in general suggestions for:

  - how to deal with a "wide" table

  - how to have a single page "landscape" and not mess up imposition

  - how to typeset text in "landscape" direction on a "portrait" page
   (with "portrait" headers)

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Re: Landscape typesetting on portrait page

[Saji N Hameed]

* John Devereux <jdREMOVE@THISdevereux.me.uk> [2008-03-08 14:19:57 +0000]:

> As a workaround I did try making the entire page landscape (and
> removing headers and footers). But that did not seem to play well with
> imposition - I tried lots of combinations and could not get it right.
> 
> So for now I am going to just "transpose" the table, i.e. exchange rows and
> columns so it is tall instead of wide.

 Another alternative might be to write out your table in the current
incarnation (portrait mode), as a PDF document, and read it back as an image
with rotation applied.

saji
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