4k display: Limited scaled resolutions when in portrait?

Hi,
I've got a MacBook Pro, late 2013, retina, discrete graphics, Yosemite.  I like it.  Also have a Dell P2815Q monitor.  I hate it.  I would, however, like to gain better control over the resolution of the Dell display when in portrait mode.  Currently, the monitor will run in landscape at 1504x846, 1920x1080, 2560x1440, 3008x1692 and 1:1 at 3840x2160.  But the system display dialog will only allow four options when the display is rotated 90°, 540x960, 846x1504, 1080x1920, and 2160x3840.
I would like 1692x3008 or 1440x2560 while in portrait.
I have tried SwitchResX.  I entered a custom scaled resolution and tried a few other things and it did not work out well (I ended up deleting plist files to get things back to normal).
Any help?
Thanks

I saw on a Dell support forum the P2414Q 4K monitor has the same issue under Yosemite.  I really hope the lack of enhanced 4K monitor support gets resolved in an update soon.  OS X Mavericks finally had it right with 10.9.3 and later.  I'm surprised the enhanced 4K didn't carry over to Yosemite.

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