[texhax] Rotate text

[John Wheeler]

Thank you all so much!  It works perfectly now.  I hadn't realized that 
it needed the package graphicx.
John Wheeler
++++++++++++++++++++++++
On 05/13/2016 09:25 AM, Lars Madsen wrote:
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> \usepackage{graphicx}%<-------- remember
> \begin{document}
>
> \rotatebox{180}{\parbox{4in}{\em Answer: Take any ten pennies, set
>      them aside and turn them over.  They're group one.  The rest of
>      the pennies are group two.  Open your eyes (take off the
>      blindfold), and you'll see that both groups have the same number
>      of tails.}}
>
>
> \end{document}
>
>
>
> /Lars Madsen
> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@math / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@math
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: texhax<texhax-bounces at tug.org>  on behalf of John Wheeler<jwheeler at ucsd.edu>
> Sent: 13 May 2016 18:07
> To: David Carlisle
> Cc: TeXhax
> Subject: Re: [texhax] Rotate text
>
> Thanks for your quick reply.   In pdflatex it didn't work.  I put the
> \rotatebox command around the previously existing \parbox command:
> \rotatebox{180}{\parbox{4in}{\em Answer:  Take any ten pennies, set them
> aside and turn them over.
> They're group one.  The rest of the pennies are group two.  Open your eyes
> (take off the blindfold), and you'll see that both groups have the same
> number
> of tails.}}
>
> and got the following error message:
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.34 \rotatebox
>                  {180}{\parbox{4in}{\em Answer:  Take any ten pennies,
> set the...
>
> I'm using the package
> \usepackage{amsmath}
> but no other complicated stuff.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> John
> ++++++++++++++
>
> On 05/13/2016 08:56 AM, David Carlisle wrote:
>> \noindent
>> \rotatebox{180}{\parbox{\textwidth}{hello}}
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> On 13 May 2016 at 16:52, John Wheeler<jwheeler at ucsd.edu>   wrote:
>>> I want to have a paragraph of text rotated by 180 degrees so that it is easy
>>> to read only by rotating the page by
>>> 180 degrees.   I'm using pdflatex.   It seems that this should be possible,
>>> but I don't find reference to it in the
>>> LaTeX manual, which is all I have with me during a string of moves on the
>>> way to being back in a house with space for
>>> all my reference books re TeX.
>>>
>>> Is there a simple solution to this?  Thanks in advance for any help.
>>>
>>> John Wheeler
>>> Professor Emeritus UCSD
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