Re: ePix: rotated text labels?

[Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu>]

Kostas Pagiamtzis <pagiamt@eecg.toronto.edu> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm playing around with ePiX and I really like it. It has everything I
> need except that I can't figure out how to rotate text labels. Is this
> possible? A Google search
> <http://www.google.com/search?q=epix+%22rotated+text%22> didn't turn up
> anything.
>
> Thanks,
> Kostas

I'm sure there are other ways, but you could use the LaTeX package
"rotating".  Just run epix, elaps, etc., with the option 
"-p rotating".
Then
\begin{rotate}{30} Text text \end{rotate}
for example, will rotate the text by 30 degrees.  I used this to
label a "Big Wheel" for my trig class.  One such label was

label(0.4*polar(1,pi/6),P(-.5,1.5),
  "\\begin{rotate}{30} \\scriptsize $\\pi/6$ radians $=30^\\circ$\\end{rotate}");

Jay