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From: arnar@cs.hw.ac.uk (Arnar Nesset)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Novice question (?) : Text rotation using Xlib routines ?
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Date: 13 Jul 90 12:57:43 GMT
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Reply-To: arnar@cs.hw.ac.uk (Arnar Nesset)
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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I was just wondering if there were any possibilities of rotating text using
the standard Xlib routines (XDrawString, XDrawImageString, etc.). I have Jones's
book "Introduction to the X Window System", but I can't seem to find any indications
to how this might be achieved. The rotation I want is rotation of the base line
of the string, so that when I e.g. specify a rotation of 90 degrees I want the text
to stand upright, so that you must put your head at a similar angle to read it 
properly (just as in :-)...). The reason I'm being so specific is that I have
received suggestions of rotating the "origin" of the individual characters in the 
string to be printed, so that the characters still are printed horizontally, 
but the "line" of characters are printed in the specified angle. That's not what 
I'm looking for.


Please reply by e-mail if you have any suggestions.


Thanks,

Arnar  (arnar@cs.hw.ac.uk)