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Scaling Rotating Mirroring Clipping (view source)
Revision as of 15:12, 7 June 2020
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You can use the commands for text, but also for graphics or other “building blocks”.
== \scale =Scaling=
You can insert symbols at a reduced size in the text flow.
</context>
== \mirror =Mirroring =
<context source=yes>
There is a \mirror{\sl mirorred} {\sl word} in this sentence.
</context>
== \rotate =Rotating =
You can rotate something by an arbitrary angle by saying something like
</context>
=== location Location parameter ===
An example by Hans Hagen showing the influence of <code>location=</code> argument at different angles:
You can rotate a long paragraph as well.
=== in In a box ===
Depending on the usage you will sometimes probably want to include the content of what you wish to rotate into a box. Compare the following two examples:
</context>
=== page Page dependent landscape figures ===
Sometimes, in a double-sided portrait document, you may wish to rotate a landscape figure so that the top is towards the spine of the book – no matter whether it's on an odd or even page. In this case the <cmd>doifoddpageelse</cmd> command can help:
This example is by Wolfgang, from [http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2011/059834.html the thread starting here]. The thread contains other solutions to the problem.
== \clip =Clipping=
You can adjust the size of an element by cropping/clipping its borders:
