rjw@wjh12.harvard.edu (Russell J. Wilcox) (07/14/88)
I am trying to alter Times-Roman to include certain typesetting symbols which it does not have. Many of them require special tweaking from accents or other diacritical marks. One of them is really giving me a headache however: printing the upside-down "e" that you see in a dictionary pronunciation guide. Using the transition matric to rotate this sucker just doesn't help - I need the mirror image! Looking through the rainbow of PostScript manuals, I just can't find a way to flip an image, path, or font. It seems to me that it would be nice to have such a function: feed it a line and everything would flip around that line. Feed it a horizontal line through the center of an "e" and get the character I'm looking for. I can't think of an easy way to do this, however. Has anyone developed such a "flip" function? Assuming that no one has, can anyone give me some ideas about how to make such a function? Failing that, has anyone ever tweaked a font to get an upside down "e"? Any ideas about how to approach this? Your help is greatly appreciated... -Russell Wilcox ARPA: rjw@wjh12.harvard.edu
reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) (07/14/88)
In article <255@wjh12.harvard.edu> rjw@wjh12.UUCP (Russell J. Wilcox) writes: >a way to flip an image, path, or font. It seems to me that it would be >nice to have such a function: feed it a line and everything would flip >around that line. executing "1 -1 scale" will flip vertically. You still have to worry about font baselines.