[pdftex] landscape

[Jean-Charles]

I fear that \usepackage on works with LaTeX. The problem is I had to
turn back to TeX - to use abc2mtex a quite old preprocessor for musictex
and musixtex - and learn some basics. Are there also TeX packages?

JC



Robin Fairbairns a écrit :
> 
> > Jean-Charles <corlayjeancharles at wanadoo.fr> writes:
> >
> > > Neither \special{landscape}, nor 'page_width 297 truemm' in
> > > /usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg succeded in getting a
> > > landscape oriented output (I gess it means 90 degres rotation).
> > > Am I missing someting patent ?
> 
> obviously \special{landscape} isn't going to help, since pdftex
> doesn't listen to \special.  simply changing the page dimensions
> doesn't help either, since you have to rotate the text.
> 
> > have you tried the landscape package?
> 
> i presume (hope) you mean the landscape environment of the lscape
> package -- probably works.
> 
> for a whole document, i use
> 
>   \usepackage[landscape,pdftex]{geometry}
> 
> [i note this isn't in the tex faq, so i've added it.]