[Tugindia] landscape mode

[amaity at vsnl.net]

> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:54:42PM +0500, amaity at vsnl.net wrote:
> > > 
> > > > What are the relevant commands for getting output in 
> landscape mode?
> > > 
> > > \documentclass[landscape]{article}
> > > 
> > > Manjusha
> > > -- -----------------------------------------
> > 
> > No that doesn't seem to work. The DVI output displays the page in
> > portrait style and the letters, figures, etc are also displayed in
> > portrait style. 
> > 
> 
> Something wrong with your set up or you havent stated your 
> requirementsin a way that I understand. As far as I can see 
> Manjusha's suggestion
> works.
> 
> The "landscape" option asks TeX to format the document for paper that
> is "wide" instead of "tall". Thus the usual height and width of a4 
> paperare interchanged.
> 
> This produces a dvi file. You then need to tell "dvips" to output a
> landscape style page by using "dvips -t landscape". You can also view
> this using "xdvi -paper a4r".
> 
> It works here (Debian GNU/Linux "testing" version with TeX version
> 3.14159 and dvips version 5.92b). It should work similarly with other
> systems.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kapil.
>---------------------------------------------------------------
 
I am using the TexLive-7 in the Windows enviornment. Unfortunately I do not have a postscript viewer and hence cannot check the ps output. The windvi output gives me a portrait view after using the commands suggested.

I am actually trying to generate some electrical control schematic diagrams using the \picture command.

A. Maity