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From: mstankus@oba.ucsd.edu (Mark Stankus)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Viewing dvifiles on screen - help
Date: 22 Dec 92 18:40:59 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Mathematics @ UCSD

I got the program dv  as described below.
I do not know how to install it. If you have used the program
or know how to install it, please send me e-mail. It has no
                           ---------------------
README.

Also, I am (dialing into a) Sun Sparc II. Can I unzip and uudecode this dvgt
program?

Thanks for you help,
Mark Stankus

P.S. My unsuccessful attempt at installation is described below.

-----------------------------------------

                                   DVGT
                                   ----
The DVGT package includes a UUENCODEd ZIP file containing Geoffrey Tobin's
<ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au> modifications to Ian Dall's 3.0 C version of
dv (available at anonymous@augean.ua.oz.au:/pub/misc/dv.tar.Z), which is a
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
C port of the original Modula-2 version of DVItoVDU by Andrew Trevorrow. 


----------------------------------------

I uncompressed it, untarred it and found a file Makefile. I typed

        make Makefile 

It said that it was up to date. Now what? 

Mark Stankus
-- 
mstankus
mstankus@oba 
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: vansoest@milk.cs.utwente.nl (Dick van Soest)
Subject: Re: Center Eps file in latex
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 09:09:49 GMT

\begin{figure}[ht]
  \begin{center}
    \setlength{\epsfxsize}{0.8\textwidth}
    \leavevmode
    \epsfbox{modcyc3.eps}
    \caption{The modeling process.}
    \label{fig: modeling process}
  \end{center}
\end{figure}

Don't forget the \leavevmode!

--
Dick van Soest
Department of Computer Science
University of Twente           |      Tel: +31 53 894107/893690
P.O. Box 217                   |      Fax: +31 53 339605
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joachim Schrod)
Subject: Re: font switch at a line break
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:05:54 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt

In article <1992Dec21.190532.21715@ncsa.uiuc.edu>, rjekel@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Ross Jekel) writes:
> I began reading a book yesterday that has an interesting format
> for the first line of the first paragraph of each chapter and was
> wondering how this could best be done in TeX.
> 

Check out

@Article{Bruggemann-Klein:TB8-2-193,
  author =      "Anne Br{\"{u}}ggemann-Klein",
  title =       "{{First line special handling with \TeX}}",
  journal =     TUGboat,
  year =        "1987",
  volume =      "8",
  number =      "2",
  pages =       "193",
  month =       Jul,
}

It's a fascinating article, there you can see where the limits of TeX
_really_ are. As far as I know, the macros are not available on line.
Anne has stopped working in the TeX arena, so it will also not be of
much use asking her.


--
Joachim

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Joachim Schrod			Email: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
Computer Science Department
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

	``How do we persuade new users that spreading fonts across the page
	like peanut butter across hot toast is not necessarily the route to
	typographic excellence?				-- Peter Flynn
From: yhtao@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Yu-Hui Tao)
Subject: Position a MAC PS file using epsf.sty!!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:23:57 GMT

Hi, netters:

   I need any suggestion about positioning a MAC PS file in Latex with
espf.sty and dvips driver!

   It would be nice to know how an included MAC PS file could be 
positioned as wished. Otherwise, any response to the following questions 
is also appreciated:

1. What is the appropriate Bounding Box for a Mac PS file, say from 
   MS-Word and MacDraw? 
  
   I have some one-page files which cover almost a 11x8.5 paper, but
   could not give [0 0 612 792] without reducing the size by using
   commands, such as \epsfxsize or \epsfysize, since it gave me a
   Latex Warning about "float larger than \texheight or \texwidth...",
   under figure environment.

2. How to center the Mac PS file?

   Even if I could use the above bounding box with \epsfxsize=, say
   216pt, the diagram is not centered, with or without \leavevmode
   command suggested in epsf.sty file.  

   It is especially obvious when I have the \caption in the figure
   environment!

3. How to include an 8x11.5 Mac PS file with the top-to-bottom look?
  
   One of the Macdraw files I have is reversed printout, i.e. the printout
   is rotated 90 degrees to the right so that it become 8.5x11. However,
   when I included this file with reduced size in latex, it still printed
   out reversely so that I have to rotate the printout (11x8.5) to the right
   90 degrees to see the diagram. 

   It is in  conflict with the caption in the figure environment.

Thanks!

Yu-Hui Tao
ISE, OSU
tao@CSEL.eng.ohio-state.edu
===========================
From: phys58@jetson.uh.edu (Hortvet, Douglas Richard)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Emtex document printing
Date: 28 Dec 1992 16:44 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: elroy.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

I have received an article in Emtex format. After reviewing the files at
ymir.claremont.edu I am lost as to what is needed, as a minimum, to output
the Emtex file I have to either a postscript or ln03 printer.

It would be very much appreciated if someone could E-Mail the appropriate files
to translate/output an Emtex file or alternatively advise which ones are 
necessary. If E-Mailed, uuencoded format would be beneficial.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.


Doug
From: vigourou@ens-lyon.fr (Xavier-Francois Vigouroux)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: BibTex: PLEASE HELP!
Date: 22 Dec 92 10:29:08 GMT
Reply-To: vigourou@ens-lyon.fr
Organization: Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallelisme


BIBCARD

sincerely

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From: Claude.Fuhrer@info.unine.ch
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Print of Emtex
Date: 27 Dec 92 15:51:35 MET
Organization: University of Neuchatel, Switzerland

In article <1992Dec23.131424.14438@fwi.uva.nl>, mvelzen@fwi.uva.nl 
(Marc van Velzen) writes:

> If you use a deskjet (I do) just enter:
> 
> prthplj /od /b2 /n3 <somefileorother.tex>
                                       ^^^
                                       and what about a dvi-file ??? ( :-)))
> 
> this tells the driver to print from /b{egin}, and print only a /n{umber} of 
> pages (the /od is for deskjet, if you use a hp-laserjet, leave it out).
> So this example prints from page 2 to (and including) page 4.
> 
> regards,
> Marc.

Happy new year to all !!!!


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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: rjekel@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Ross Jekel)
Subject: font switch at a line break
Originator: rjekel@consult.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:05:32 GMT

I began reading a book yesterday that has an interesting format
for the first line of the first paragraph of each chapter and was
wondering how this could best be done in TeX.

The paragraph starts with an initial and the rest of the first line is
in a small caps font.  The second line then switches back to your
normal roman font.  I wouldn't have really noticed this except the
first line of the first chapter ended in a hyphenated word with the
first part of the word in small caps and the second part on the second
line in normal type; it ended up looking something like this (SUG-
gest).

Although this (in my opinion) is not very good style, I still think it
is an interesting problem.  How could I use TeX's line breaking algorithm
to automatically switch the font at the end of the first line?
I thought about making a space active and fussing with penalties and
stuff, but I really didn't get much further than that.  I also wasn't
sure how to switch fonts if there was a word that was hyphenated at the
end of the line.

I would be interested in any solutions to this problem that work, as
long as they don't require you to guess how many words are going to
fit on the first line.

Either emailing or posting is fine.

Thanks.
Ross Jekel
rjekel@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat)
Subject: Re: Venn diagrams
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Brown University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:27:18 GMT


Well... it's not an sty file. It's PostScript! But will this help you? :)

The below PostScript code defines some Venn diagrams and gives some
examples of how to use them. Do you have to be a PostScript
programmer? I don't think so. If I'm wrong, let me know and I'll patch
together what you need it to look like.

-Jon
%! Jon Monsarrat   jgm@cs.brown.edu   Brown University %! Obfuscated PostScript
(LcHdBidZi_hdQ6[PaVa1b4c6F"J4b/>$O<)(di_zk{:UFfUg;ABF)(2n>]Eh:u?<)(P"M#R\(:$T<)
([gXfSZ]f\\dZbeZeb^fH;`?dR=ZS7)(K P!U!: H<)(9l9cCf:o?$)(7W4]6`:X;=)(U"W#_%:"R-)
(A 5"<&Y%K"F"M,M,S\)i3e.M5F_PZR9>lP-)(wBxEuEs7x;uBq:q<q>hFh7o:=Nj<)(Z#]#b#:$R-)
(m+m+k3S!R+d,;"^<)(GFP\\RamZf;TAP{X{fd<{C7)(4840N2:6N=)([ Z#^&:!c<)(<%?$C$:#8<)
(D!J"L#:!B<)/a{def}def/M{exch}a/S{repeat}a/Q{{40 add}if}a 18{{}forall/R M a/x 2
/y 3/z 5 3{R M mod 1 eq a}S x Q M y Q moveto 57 sub{3{y Q M x Q M 6 2 roll}S
curveto}S z{fill}{stroke}ifelse}S showpage


------------------------------- venn.ps ------------------
%!Adobe-2.0 EPSF
%%Creator: Jonathan Monsarrat (jgm@cs.brown.edu)
%%CreationDate: 12/11/92
%%Title: venn.ps
%%BoundingBox: 0 50 450 250
%% PostScript hack by Jon Monsarrat
%% This figure is part of the answer to Exercise 5.1-1 in our CS253 book

/radius 20 def
/Symbol findfont 12 scalefont setfont

/circle { 2 copy moveto radius 0 rmoveto radius 0 360 arc} def
/venn {
  0 0 moveto 150 0 lineto 150 150 lineto 0 150 lineto
  fill

} bind def

%  [  str str  shift  -  ]
/shift
{
  0 setgray grestore
  95 10 moveto dup stringwidth pop 2 div neg 0 rmoveto show
  50 10 moveto dup stringwidth pop 2 div neg 0 rmoveto show
  23 61 moveto (A) show
  67 61 moveto (B) show
  45 29 moveto (C) show
  A stroke B stroke C stroke
  90 0 translate
} bind def

/A { 38 59 circle } def
/B { 60 59 circle } def
/C { 50 45 circle } def

gsave

0 50 translate

gsave .5 setgray A clip venn (A) (\310) shift
gsave .5 setgray B clip newpath C fill ((B\307C)) (=) shift
gsave .5 setgray A fill newpath B clip newpath C fill (A\310(B\307C)) (=) shift
gsave .5 setgray A fill B fill ((A\310B)) (\307) shift
gsave .5 setgray A fill C fill ((A\310C)) () shift

grestore
0 150 translate

gsave .5 setgray A clip venn (A) (\307) shift
gsave .5 setgray B C clip venn ((B\310C)) (=) shift
gsave .5 setgray A clip newpath B fill C fill (A\307(B\310C)) (=) shift
gsave .5 setgray A clip newpath B fill ((A\307B)) (\310) shift
gsave .5 setgray A clip newpath C fill ((A\307C)) () shift



showpage
From: jliter@aris.ss.uci.edu (Jeff Liter)
Subject: Comments in LaTeX
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 22 Dec 92 18:39:28 GMT
Distribution: US

I am looking for a comment command which will allow me to include
(or not include) comments in a printed LaTeX document.  It should
handle comments of any length.

It is useful when developing a manuscript to be able to print
multiple versions, one without comments (for one's advisor) and
another with comments (for further development).

Thanks in advance,

Jeffrey C. Liter
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke)
Subject: Re: Centered verbatim: how?
Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, US
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:53:54 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.180642.13682@Princeton.EDU> tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt) writes:
>In article <1992Dec23.164637.9169@sophia.smith.edu> orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:
>>How does one center a verbatim environment?  
>
>Do you want to center just a single line? 

No, I need to center a bunch of lines.

>If you want to center several lines, get fancybox.sty.

Thanks for the recommendation.  I guess I should know where to get this,
but...
From: baron@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Jonathan Baron)
Newsgroups: upenn.general,comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX for books
Date: 30 Dec 92 02:44:10 GMT
Followup-To: upenn.general
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

If you have used LaTeX for a book (or, really, anything with a
table of contents, an acknowledgements page, and a list of
references), I would like to seee the .tex file, or the relevant
parts of it (like the header and the end).  I'm a beginner, and I
think a model would help.  (I've almost succeeded by using the
manual alone, but a few things are still unclear.)  You could
send the file in a mail message or let me know how else I could
get it.  Thanks. - Jon Baron
From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: dvi --> pcx program for Unix wanted.
Date: 3 Jan 93 19:44:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: wam.1993Jan3.194451.14662
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

Does anyone know of a .dvi to .pcx translator for Unix?  (I know
there's an excellent one as part of emTeX, but that's not an option.)

Thanks in advance.

-Joel
(joel@wam.umd.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hgs@allegra.att.com (Henning G. Schulzrinne)
Subject: cite with white space - how?
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:26:29 GMT

It would be nice if long lists of citations could be broken over several
lines in the TeX **input** file (not the printed version). Currently,
white space inserted into the \cite{} argument is not handled gracefully
either by BibTeX or LaTeX. Thus, I want to be able to write
\cite{first, second, third,
fourth}.

Any hints appreciated.
----
Henning Schulzrinne
hgs@research.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: lones@lones.mit.edu (Lones A. Smith)
Subject: Manual over-ride of bibitem numbers -- HOW??
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:34:31 GMT

Hi,

I've been asked by friends who just want to hack it whether a simple  
change in one of the LaTeX input files to get rid of the numbers for  
bibitems without having to use BiBTeX.


--
Lones A. Smith
Department of Economics
MIT E52-252C
Cambridge MA 02139
v-mail: (617) 253-0914
e-mail: lones@lones.mit.edu  (NeXT mail or the garden variety stuff)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: mvelzen@fwi.uva.nl (Marc van Velzen)
Subject: Re: Print of Emtex
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:14:24 GMT

stsai@acsu.buffalo.edu (Shuoh-Ren Tsai) writes:

>   Would anyone out there tell me how to specify both the start  and 
>the end page when I print a file in Emtex?

If you use a deskjet (I do) just enter:

prthplj /od /b2 /n3 <somefileorother.tex>

this tells the driver to print from /b{egin}, and print only a /n{umber} of 
pages (the /od is for deskjet, if you use a hp-laserjet, leave it out).
So this example prints from page 2 to (and including) page 4.

regards,
Marc.
From: bkph@kauai.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: seeking opinions about Scientific Word software and its TeX output
Date: 28 Dec 92 13:09:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: life.1hmua8INNhfl
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: kauai.ai.mit.edu
In-reply-to: bolden@beta.math.unc.edu's message of Sun, 27 Dec 1992 14:58:55 GMT


In article <1992Dec27.145855.2168@samba.oit.unc.edu> bolden@beta.math.unc.edu (Jeffrey Bolden) writes:

   >Hello, I've seen an Ad. about this new WYSWYG `Scientific Word'
   >it is supposed to generate as output a .TeX file of the document you
   >are working on. Has any one used this software? if so, could you please

	....

   Yes I've been using it.  It seems to have all of the capacity of
   LaTeX under an experienced TeX user (that is for a beginer).  Basically it
   is a scientific word processor that translates a document into TeX.  The

	....

   Now the downside.  Sci-Word supports an unusually small number of
   printers.  I don't know if it supports external drivers or not, 
   however if you have a Hewlet-Packard Laser, or Post Script you'll be OK,
   other than that you have a few (literally) other drivers.  

Fortunately, it is easy to link to DVIWindo from Scientific Word,
and DVIWindo can drive anything with a Windows printer driver, 
including HP, IBM, dot-matrix, PS, even some fax boards.  And with 
ATM 2.5, driving an HP printer is much faster than it used to be.

	Disclaimer: respondent has connections with Y&Y


Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
From: ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Venn diagrams
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:43:37 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium

CXEV@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA (Richard P Hayes) writes:

>If anyone has devised a set of macros, preferably for LaTeX, that
>facilitate the drawing of Venn diagrams, I would be grateful to
>be informed about them. Alternatively, if anyone has constructed
>a decent Venn diagram from scratch and would be willing to share
>the description as a model, I would be most appreciative.

Hi Richard!  Fancy meeting you here.

I did some simple Venn diagrams a while back using the TeXCAD drawing
package that is included with emTeX.  It worked simply and well, for me.

Dominik
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: engp2116@nusunix1.nus.sg (RAINER WALTER BACHL)
Subject: real and complex field ?
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 08:44:22 GMT

Writing some mathematical equations is really a pleasure with LATEX.
However, I am missing the symbols for the real and complex number
fields, something like "IR" and "C" with an additional stroke.

Some persons are using such symbols, like the authors of
"Matrix Computations", Golub and van Loan, who have written
their 2nd edition (682 pages) using LATEX.

Any suggestions are welcome; I am not an expert with TEX and for me
it is only a means to write mathematical articles without too much
troubles .....

Rainer.


Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke)
Subject: Re: Forcing two figures on the same page
Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, US
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:11:37 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.114518.14235@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> rekers@elc2 (Jan Rekers) writes:
>In article <1992Dec21.202232.17425@sophia.smith.edu> orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:
>>I have two LaTeX figures following one another in my text (see below), 
>>and I would like them to appear on the same page.
>
>Just leave the middle ``\end{figure\begin{figure}'' out, e.g.:
>
>        \begin{figure} 
>                ... 
>        \caption{1}
>                ... 
>        \caption{2}
>        \end{figure}

Thanks to Jan and to the ten or so people who sent suggestions via email.
It never occurred to me that one figure environment could have several
captions.  That solves my problem nicely.  Thanks again!
						:-j
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: seeta@eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju UdayaBhaskar Sarma)
Subject: Re: Error locator
Reply-To: seeta@eng.wayne.edu
Organization: College of Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit Michigan, USA
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:14:13 GMT

My LaTeX does count blank lines...  All editors I know will let me ``goto''
a certain line number...

As regarding the error.  U have to work Ur way back from that line...
Generally, its almost surely a missing curly bracket 
	or a missing \end{} command...


In article 103367@netnews.upenn.edu, jer@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Joel Ratsaby) writes:
-+>
-+>I am using an editor that does not display line numbers
-+>When Emtex gives me an error such as "  l.249" 
-+>does it count blank lines ?
-+>I checked for error there but there does not
-+>seem to be any logical explanation for an error.
-+>Is there a way to tell Latex to count blank lines
-+>this way I can easily flip thru pages 
-+>and just count the lines on the page for which
-+>line 249 is on ?
-+>
-+>
-+>--Joel
-+>
-+>email: jer@ee.upenn.edu, jer@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
-+>Phone: (215) 898-1858
From: wagner@ives.cs.unc.edu (Michael Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: spell checking EmTeX
Date: 30 Dec 92 21:23:46 GMT
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


Can anyone recommend a good (hopefully public domain and
ftp-able) spell-checker for EmTeX?  I really like being able
to do LaTeX at home, but I need to get a spell checker (is
ispell available for DOS?).

Mike
From: mroth@afit.af.mil (Mark A. Roth)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: fixed width fonts
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 10:56:44 EST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Arthur Ogawa reminded me of the very nice cmttssc fonts available at
shsu.edu.

Here is my next question:

Is there a way to get raggedright and hyphenation at the same time?  I would
like this for use with a fixed width font.  If you don't have hyphenation
then large, hyphenatable words that could be split at the end of the line
will be forced to the next line leaving large white spaces on the previous
line.

For instance I would like:
                           |<--- text width ends here
Is there a way to get rag-
gedright and hyphenation at
the same time? Is there a
way to get raggedright and
hyphenation at the same
time? Is there way to get
raggedright and hyphena-
tion at the same time?

I can only get rid of overful boxes in the fixed width font with \tolerance
= 10000 or by using \raggedright, both of which have the
effect of turning off hyphenation.  Any ideas?

Mark Roth
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: bli@titan.ucc.umass.edu (BO LI)
Subject: figures/tables -- Not floated
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 06:32:30 GMT

Is there any way to make figures/tables not floated in LaTex,
i.e., if I want to a figure or table following immediately
a certain text. 

Any suggestions are appreciated!

E-mail
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: bremner@cs.sfu.ca (David Bremner)
Subject: Re: Changing linelength for rotated captions in LaTeX
Reply-To: bremner@cs.sfu.ca (David Bremner)
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:42:07 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.200237.6068@gallant.apple.com> rose@gallant.apple.com (Dan Rose) writes:
>I have some postscript figures that I'm rotating.  The captions are
>rotating, too, but LaTeX still thinks the lines should be \linewidth long 
>instead of \textheight.  Is there a simple way to change a length parameter
>just for the caption?
>

Put the psfig and caption inside a minipage, then rotate that.
i.e., upto typos:

\begin{figure}
  \rotate{90}
  \begin{minipage}{\textheight}
    \psfig{}
    \caption{}
  \end{minipage}
\end{figure}

-- 
David Bremner / bremner@cs.sfu.ca / ubc-cs!fornax!bremner / (604)291-5938(days)