Diagonal text (n.2)

[Rodolfo Medina]

Joseph Wright <joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk> writes:

> On 26/05/2019 16:54, Taylor, P wrote:
>> OK, but Herbert reported (and I have no reason to disbelieve him) that
>> "[a] lot of the dvi viewers cannot show the rotations".  Now admittedly
>> "drivers" <> "viewers" but if Rodolfo requires viewing rather than
>> printing, then the limitation which Herbert has reported is of some
>> relevance, is it not ?
>
> Viewing at the DVI stage is going to be pretty limited, yes. It's a
> less-common workflow than it once was. Some dvips specials may work, but I'd
> not be confident. Certainly I would want to check the PostScript or PDF
> 'target' for such special-based effects.


xdvi is great, but unfortunately a lot of features are not supported there...
I'm still going on using it, but also for the rotations and the solution
proposed by Joseph:

\input graphicx %
\rotatebox{45}{foo}
\bye

...I have to do dvips -> ps2pdf, unless found differently...

Rodolfo