[tex-live] Rotating package

Bernhard Kleine bernhard.kleine at gmx.net
Thu Aug 11 23:35:08 CEST 2016



Am 11.08.2016 um 22:34 schrieb Barbara Beeton:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2016, Bernhard Kleine wrote:
>
>     In order to understand the process of the rotating package, I read the
>     documentation. The authors claim that there is a file examples.tex,
>     however I cannot find it in texlive 2016. I checked the documentation
>     and the directory of rotating.sty. There is also no subdirectory where
>     it might be hidden. The docu is from july 12 2016. Can you please help?
>
>     Regards
>     Bernhard
>     
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> i've taken a look at where rotating is
> located in tex live 2012, and the doc
> area (texmf-dist/doc/latex/rotating)
> contains these four files:
>
>   README
>   cat.eps
>   examples.tex
>   rotating.pdf
>
> on ctan, rotating now seems to be
> included with the graphicx collection,
> and indeed the examples file is absent.
> the readme file there identifies a
> file rotex.tex as examples of use of
> the rotating package; quick inspection
> of the contents indicates that the
> files are essentially the same, and a
> diff shows only "reasonable" changes.
> (\includegraphics is used instead of
> \epsfig, for example.)
>
> perhaps there are still vestiges of
> the old file names in the documentation.
> although it has been updated.
>
> (re tex live: there is now an empty
> directory .../tex/latex/rotating
> that is no longer needed.)
> 					-- bb
>
Using the rotex.tex file I could solve my problem, which was the wrong
direction of the rotation and the problem that the figure appeared not
on the next page possible but on a page at the end of the section
together with other figures. That has been solved.
Thank you very much
Regards Bernhard

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