[texhax] rotating a glyph in pdfTeX?

[Paul Isambert]

"D. R. Evans" <doc.evans at gmail.com> a écrit:
> 
> Ulrike Fischer said the following at 06/14/2012 10:58 AM :
> > Am Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:12:20 -0600 schrieb D. R. Evans:
> > 
> >> I can't find an answer to this question, so it's time to visit the house of
> >> the TeX gurus....
> >>
> >> Is there a way in plain TeX (specifically, pdfTeX) to invert a single instance
> >> of a particular glyph? I thought that pstricks might be able to do this, but
> >> the complete pstricks-doc.pdf file doesn't seem to be readily available, at
> >> least not anywhere I've looked.
> >>
> >> To make the question crystal clear (I hope): I want to be able to typeset, in
> >> pdfTeX, something like the sentence fragment "It was a Y", but with the "Y"
> >> upside down (i.e., rotated through 180°). I recognize that some
> >> micro-adjustment might be necessary to the vertical positioning of the box
> >> containing the glyph.
> > 
> > graphicx works also with plain tex:
> > 
> > \input miniltx
> > \input graphicx
> > 
> > abc\rotatebox{180}{Y}cde
> 
> Excellent! Thank you very much.

Otherwise, pdf-trans provides exactly what you're looking for.

Best,
Paul