[texhax] Landscape orientation with plain TeX

Rodolfo Medina romeomedina at libero.it
Tue Sep 7 17:16:10 CEST 2004


Robin Fairbairns wrote:

>lscape could (i expect) be used with plain, if you
>also load the plain version of the latex graphics package.

Could you maybe indicate a ctan address for this plain version?

>lscape's code does
>
>  \clearpage % i.e., \vfill\eject
>  <set page dimensions for landscape>
>  <set up output routine to rotate \box255 by 90 degrees>
>
>at the start, and
>
>  \clearpage
>  <restore output routine>
>  <restore page dimensions>

This is very clear, but we should need in plain TeX a command similar to the
LaTeX command
\rotatebox#1#2.
Any hint to build such a command?

Regards,
	Rodolfo



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