## Copyright (C) 2001 Paul Kienzle
##
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
## (at your option) any later version.
##
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## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
## GNU General Public License for more details.
##
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## orient("landscape"|"portrait")
##    Set default print orientation
##
## ret = orient
##    Return default print orientation

function ret = orient(orientation)

  ## XXX FIXME XXX --- this should be static instead of global, but that
  ## means it won't work in Octave 2.0
  global __print_orientation;

  if (nargin == 0)
    
    if !exist("__print_orientation")
      ret = "landscape";
    else
      ret = __print_orientation;
    endif

  elseif (nargin == 1)

    if strcmp(orientation,"landscape") || strcmp(orienation,"portrait")
      __print_orientation = orientation;
    else
      error ("orient: unknown orientation");
    endif

  else

    usage("orient(['portrait' | 'landscape'])  OR  ret=orient");

  endif

endfunction