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You The {{cmd|scale}} command is all-purpose, you can scale by factors or to a defined size. As a special case, you can insert symbols at a reduced size in the text flowusing {{cmd|getscaledglyph}}.

<code>\{{cmd|mirror</code> }} makes a <code>\hbox</code> and mirrors the contents. If you want to have a longer paragraph mirrored, you have to make a <code>\vbox</code> manually.

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You can {{cmd|rotate }} something by an arbitrary angle by saying something like  

An example by Hans Hagen showing the The influence of <code>location=</code> argument at different angles:

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 it’s on an odd or even page. In this case the {{cmd|doifoddpageelse}} command can help:

The example shows only the case “split into a grid of parts“; it’s also possible to cut out a piece by measures;see also {{cmd|setupclipping}} and {{cmd|clip}}.

In [https://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/base/mkii/core-mis.mkii core-mis.mkii] (for MkII), there are some handy commands for graphical text manipulation defined. In MkIV, graphic Graphic transformations are implemented in [https://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/base/mkiv/grph-trf.mkiv grph-trf.mkiv] and [https://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/base/mkiv/grph-trf.lua grph-trf.lua].