(OT)Nice looking tables

thor has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings all, I have a project in which I would like to create nice looking tables of a lot of data. These tables need to fit on standard 8.5x11 pages. The problem that I'm running in to is that the tables are too wide. Is there some technology that is easily manipulable from Perl that I could use to format this table? I've tried LaTeX and troff (or more precisely, tbl), both of which would work if I could get the tables to go landscape.

thanks in advance,
thor

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Re: (OT)Nice looking tables by jasonk (Parson) on Feb 18, 2003 at 15:41 UTC
If you use dvips to format the latex into postscript for printing, you can use the rotating package to rotate to landscape mode. Just add '\usepackage{rotating}' to your preamble.	[reply]