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The <i>rotfloat</i> package + loads <i>rotating</i> for you, and smooths the interaction with + <i>float</i>. +<li> If you have a long sequence of things that need to be typeset in + landscape (perhaps a code listing, a wide <code>tabbing</code> + environment, or a huge table typeset using <i>longtable</i> or + <i>supertabular</i>), use the <i>lscape</i> package (or + <i>pdflscape</i> if you’re generating PDF output, whether + using PDFLaTeX or <i>dvips</i> and generating PDF from + that). Both packages define an environment <code>landscape</code>, which + clears the current page and restarts typesetting in landscape + orientation (and clears the page at the end of the environment + before returning to portrait orientation). +</ul> +No currently available package makes direct provision for typesetting +in both portrait and landscape orientation on the same page (it’s not +the sort of thing that TeX is well set-up to do). If such +behaviour was an absolute necessity, one might use the techniques +described in + +<a href="FAQ-textflow.html">"flowing text around figures"</a>, and would +rotate the landscape portion using the rotation facilities of the +<i>graphics</i> package. (Returning from landscape to portrait +orientation would be somewhat easier: the portrait part of the page +would be a bottom float at the end of the landscape section, with its +content rotated.) +<p/>To set an entire document in landscape orientation, one might use +<i>lscape</i> around the whole document. A better option is the +<code>landscape</code> option of the <i>geometry</i> package; if you +also give it <code>dvips</code> or <code>pdftex</code> option, +<i>geometry</i> also emits the rotation instructions to cause the +output to be properly oriented. The <i>memoir</i> class has the same +facilities, in this respect, as does <i>geometry</i>. +<p/>A word of warning: most current TeX previewers do not honour +rotation requests in DVI files. + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Your best bet is to convert your output to PostScript or to PDF, and +to view these ‘final’ forms with an appropriate viewer. +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>geometry.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/geometry.zip">macros/latex/contrib/geometry</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/geometry.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/geometry/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>graphics.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/graphics.zip">macros/latex/required/graphics</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/graphics.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/graphics/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>longtable.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.zip">macros/latex/required/tools</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>lscape.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/graphics.zip">macros/latex/required/graphics</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/graphics.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/graphics/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>memoir.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir.zip">macros/latex/contrib/memoir</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>pdflscape.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed with Heiko Oberdiek’s packages + <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek.zip">macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>rotating.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rotating.zip">macros/latex/contrib/rotating</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rotating.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rotating/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>rotfloat.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rotfloat.zip">macros/latex/contrib/rotfloat</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rotfloat.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rotfloat/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>supertabular.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supertabular.zip">macros/latex/contrib/supertabular</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supertabular.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supertabular/">browse</a>) +</dl> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=landscape">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=landscape</a> +</body> |