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Question - Rotate a table or figure with LaTeX
How can I rotate a table or figure with LaTeX ?
Answer -
Use the package rotating
, e.g.:
\documentclass{article} \usepackage{rotating} \begin{document} \begin{sideways} \begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|} \hline Month & number & --------- \\ \hline\hline Jan & 317 & \\ Feb & 234 & \\ Mar & 584 & \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{sideways} \end{document}Note: A detailed description of the commands provided by the package rotating can be found in The LaTeX Companion
Question - Background picture with HTML
In Latex there is a nice macro called
\usepackage{draftcopy}which puts "DRAFT" across the pages of a document in a "watermark" fashion. Do you know of a background picture which I could enable in HTML to create the same effect in a WWW document?
Answer - A background image may be included on an HTML page by using the "BACKGROUND" qualifier in the BODY tag:
<BODY background="draft.gif">A suitable image for getting the requested effect is
http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/icons/draft.gifThis will show the image underlying the text of the HTML page.
Note however that Netscape4/UNIX and Explorer/PC don't offer (to our knowledge) an option to print the background image. Netscape4/PC has an option in the menu
File->PageSetupwhich is called
"PrintBackground"
.