{rotating} is for general questions about rotating document elements as well as for questions about the rotating package and its sidewaysfigure and sidewaystable (floating) environments. For general {rotating} questions add other tags specifying what should be rotated.
Questions tagged [rotating]
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Rotated $\ltimes$ symbol
I'd like to use a rotated version of $\ltimes$ where the vertical line is at the top, and another where the vertical line is at the bottom. I tried using \rotatebox with graphicx, but it puts the symbol either too high or too low. Any thoughts?
goblin GONE
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Rotate every letter/character by 90 deg, keeping left-to-right letterflow intact
I'd lik to rotate every letter/character of a paragraph 90 degrees counterclockwise, yet keeping the left-to-right flow intact.
Everything I have found so far only rotates one letter at a time and not multiple letters.
This is what I use…
Christian
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Rotated, running text in right margin?
I want to place some (large) text, rotated -90 degrees and running the right-hand margin.
After reviewing Chapter Title in rotated vertical box at the margin and the somewhat related (albeit for tables rather than standard text) post Rotated text…
JohnD
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How can I rotate a 'sidewaysfigure'?
I would like to rotate mysidewaysfigure to face towards the left rather than the right (i.e. from 90 degreed to 270 degrees). Does anyone know how I can do this using the sidewaysfigure environment?
Here is my…
Michael
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sideways for equation (a big matrix)
I hope to use sideways for my big matrix, like this and this.
It looks straight forward. But it's not working for…
Chen Stats Yu
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Force sidewaysfigure to be in a specific position
I'm trying to force a sideways figure to be drawn in a specific point of the text, but I haven't found any valid solution. In particular, I need to achieve the following layout:
page 1 - contains only text
page 2 - contains the sideways figure
page…
Lorenzo B
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Is there a universal way to rotate stuff?
The rotating package documentation says
Note that the package uses rotation facilities from the
graphicx package. When generating DVI output, users should note that rotation is typically not visible in a DVI viewer: conversion to, and viewing,…
Andrei Smolensky
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rotating package: positioning does not match documentation
I want a sidewaystable to appear with its top against the inner margin of the body text. According to the rotating package documentation, these following settings:
\rotFPtop=0pt and
\rotFPbot=0pt plus 1fil
will place a sidewaystable with its…
Wybo Dekker
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How can I rotate a large part of the page?
I'm trying to "hide" and answer by rotating it 180 degrees.
Using \rotatebox works fine if I have a short answer:
\rotatebox{180}{The answer is $\pi$}
However, if I want to put a \begin{equation}...\end{equation} or maybe rotate a whole paragraph I…
Yossi Farjoun
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Page upside down?
I have a quite wide table in my document, that I would like to display "rotated". Everything seems fine, but apparently there is some problem towards the end: when I try to print out (print to file) I get the rotated page upside down.
Is there a way…
Danilo
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Sideways figure always rotates clockwise
I have a full page image I am displaying via
\usepackage{rotating}
...
\begin{sidewaysfigure}[counterclockwise]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.9\textwidth]{visualizer}
\caption[Quaternion visualizer GUI]{Quaternion visualizer…
schrödinbug
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Sideways figures
I'm using the command sidewaysfigures to put my landscape graphics (pdf images) the right way. The images are correctly positioned in a new page, but the problem is that if I go on writing after the
\begin{sidewaysfigure}
...
command, on the…
Francesco
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Unexpected figure rotation
I have some images embebed in pdf file.
Same formula/coding but some image rotated auto (wrong) and some image are correct. Image file: jpg.
My minimal coding:
…
latexforti
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Rotating with the center of rotation in the right place
The code below results in something other than the obverse and reverse being back to back, which is what I wanted. "turn" puts the center of rotation at the upper left corner of the image, but for this occasion one would need it at the center of the…
Michael Hardy
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Rotating text: how to avoid overlap?
Say I am faced with the following example:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{rotating}
\begin{document}
Horizontal text\\\\
\begin{rotate}{50}Vertical text\end{rotate}
\end{document}
Unfortunately, this creates some nasty overlap:
What…
Jeffery
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