# Scaling Rotating Mirroring Clipping

In core-mis.mkii (core-mis.mkiv for MkIV) there are some handy command for graphical text manipulation defined.

## \scale

You can insert symbols at a reduced size in the text flow. This example creates a filled square scaled to .5 ex height

\definefontsynonym[Dingbats][uzdr]
\definesymbol[filledSq][\getglyph{Dingbats}{\char110}]
\def\FilledSquare%
{\dontleavehmode\scale[height=0.5ex]{\symbol[filledSq]}}

In TeX terms, \scale creates a \hbox. If TeX is in vertical mode (as it is when \startlines is in effect, because every line is a paragraph by itself in the mode), then a simple \hbox is not a good enough hint to make it switch to horizontal (paragraph) mode.

Hans then posted a simpler way.

\getscaledglyph{.5}{Serif}{a}
 TODO: An explanation and example of the \\scale command. (See: To-Do List)

## \mirror

There is a \mirror{\sl mirorred} word in this sentence.

\mirror makes a \hbox and mirrors the contents. If you want to have a longer paragraph mirrored, you have to make a \vbox manually.

\mirror{\vbox{Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do:
once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and
what is the use of a book,' thought Alice without pictures or conversation?'}}

## \rotate

You can rotate something by an arbitrary angle by saying something like

.

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The rotation angle and the location (which determines around which point the content is rotated) are optional and can also be set by

\setuprotate[rotation=42,location=normal] % normal is the default

An example by Hans Hagen showing the influence of location= argument at different angles:

\dostepwiserecurse{0}{359}{45}
{\startlinecorrection[blank]
\hbox
{\expanded{\setuprotate[rotation=\recurselevel]}%
\traceboxplacementtrue
\hbox to .2\hsize{\hss\ruledhbox{\rotate[location=depth] {\ruledhbox{\bfb  (depth)}}}}%
\hbox to .2\hsize{\hss\ruledhbox{\rotate[location=fit]   {\ruledhbox{\bfb    (fit)}}}}%
\hbox to .2\hsize{\hss\ruledhbox{\rotate[location=normal]{\ruledhbox{\bfb (normal)}}}}%
\hbox to .2\hsize{\hss\ruledhbox{\rotate[location=high]  {\ruledhbox{\bfb   (high)}}}}}
\stoplinecorrection}

You can rotate a long paragraph as well.

 TODO: Some more comments, and an example. (See: To-Do List)

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:

\setuplayout[width=3cm]