X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["633" "Thu" "1" "October" "92" "18:51:11" "+0100" "rolf.lindgren@USIT.UIO.NO" "rolf.lindgren@USIT.UIO.NO" nil "18" "Re: rotation of boxes using ?specials" "^Date:" nil nil "10"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (serv01) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/1.9.92 ) id AA06557; Thu, 1 Oct 92 18:54:24 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.0/SMI-4.0-sc/19.6.92) id AA23712; Thu, 1 Oct 92 18:53:54 +0100 Message-Id: <9210011753.AA23712@sc.zib-berlin.dbp.de> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3263; Thu, 01 Oct 92 18:54:33 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 3255; Thu, 01 Oct 92 18:54:28 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 3252; Thu, 01 Oct 92 18:54:25 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 18:51:11 +0100 From: rolf.lindgren@USIT.UIO.NO Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of Subject: Re: rotation of boxes using ?specials Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 816 Paul Taylor writes: > > Suggest instead (as I've used in my commutative diagrams package) a ratio, > as used by LaTeX but, of course, without the restrictions. Let the > PostScript interpreter calculate the arctan. > Sounds like a good idea, except that _any_ DVI driver, not only a PostScript interpreter, should be able to calculate the arctan. Is it realistic to assume that any DVI driver can do this? Rolf Lindgren | "The opinions expressed above are 616 Bjerke Studentheim | not necessarily those of anyone" N-0589 OSLO 5 | rolfl.lindgren@usit.uio.no