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From: rjw@wjh12.harvard.edu (Russell J. Wilcox)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Flipping characters vertically
Keywords: fonts, flipping, help
Message-ID: <255@wjh12.harvard.edu>
Date: 13 Jul 88 23:25:12 GMT
Reply-To: rjw@wjh12.UUCP (Russell J. Wilcox)
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA
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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