[texhax] Placing text in a graphical manner (bad description, sorry)

[Gordon Haverland]

On November 14, 2012, you wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 13.11.2012, 21:51 -0700 schrieb Gordon 
Haverland:
> > Not all elements are found as solids in engineering
> > applications.

> As to rotating, the LaTeX graphics/x package provides
> \rotatebox, aware of it? See grfguide.pdf. I do not understand
> what remains.

Thanks for the "prodding".  Using Xfig and fig2dev to lean on, I 
have a start.  The formatting is really ugly at this point.  
Perhaps others are interested in the data?  I am manually 
calculating the positioning.  Some of the data really should be a 
range, instead of a single value.

Gord

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