Rotate and lap words

Question

I want to rotate the word flower 5 times and the rotations should lap over the c. That's what I got so far:

\clap{\rotatebox[origin=c]{0}{flower}}\clap{\rotatebox[origin=c]{20}
    {flower}}\clap{\rotatebox[origin=c]{45}{flower}}
    \clap{\rotatebox[origin=c]{60}{flower}}\clap{\rotatebox[origin=c]{80}{flower}}

Could somebody please help me?

Related: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/187509/overlaping-text-or-text-above-text/ — Steven B. Segletes, Jul 02 '14 at 09:45

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 02 '14 at 18:41

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Like this?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
  \makebox[0pt][c]{\rotatebox[origin=c]{0}{flower}}%
  \makebox[0pt][c]{\rotatebox[origin=c]{22.5}{flower}}%
  \makebox[0pt][c]{\rotatebox[origin=c]{45}{flower}}%
  \makebox[0pt][c]{\rotatebox[origin=c]{67.5}{flower}}%
  \makebox[0pt][c]{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{flower}}
\end{document}

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Here there are two things. \makebox[<alignment>] will take <alignment> as l or c or r as values. And \rotatebox, according to the manual of graphicx:

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Hence you can play with all of these options.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
  \makebox[0pt][l]{\rotatebox{0}{flower}}%
  \makebox[0pt][l]{\rotatebox{22.5}{flower}}%
  \makebox[0pt][l]{\rotatebox{45}{flower}}%
  \makebox[0pt][l]{\rotatebox{67.5}{flower}}%
  \makebox[0pt][l]{\rotatebox{90}{flower}}
\end{document}

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edited Jul 02 '14 at 18:41

Mico

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answered Jul 02 '14 at 08:45

And what, if I want to rotate the word at the first letter and it should lap there? Do I replace the c with l? – Marie Jul 02 '14 at 08:52
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I've taken the liberty of (a) reformatting your input code to make it easier to parse visually and (b) adding % symbols to suppress unwanted insertions of whitespace. – Mico Jul 02 '14 at 09:15
But that's nota big difference, right? – Marie Jul 02 '14 at 09:27
@maggie - The original form of Harish's code introduced an extra space between the third and fourth occurrence of "flower". – Mico Jul 02 '14 at 10:09
@Mico -- you put the %s in the code, but the visuals still show the output with the unwanted extra space. (there's a clear disjunction between the third and fourth "r"s, where they should end on a common arc. – barbara beeton Jul 02 '14 at 16:21
@barbarabeeton - I've changed the images to go with the (modified) code. – Mico Jul 02 '14 at 18:42
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@Mico -- looks much better. however, it just occurred to me that showing the "with space" version and the fixed one side by side would be instructive. (not suggesting a change though. but there may be some venue where such a demonstration would be useful and appropriate. maybe a question here about "what problems might arise because a & is omitted?" this "fan" would be a really good illustration. – barbara beeton Jul 02 '14 at 18:46
@barbarabeeton - Why don't you post just such a question and let the answers pour in? :-) (BTW, should that be a % instead of a & symbol in the final sentence of your comment?) – Mico Jul 02 '14 at 18:49
@Mico -- oh, obviously it should be a %. since i've been much delayed by a "system failure" (actually, the failure of software because of system changes), before i do anything, i'll check to see if anyone else has put in such a query. no sense in duplicating unnecessarily. – barbara beeton Jul 02 '14 at 21:17
@Mico Thank you very much. I was too held up and got an interrupting internet yesterday to edit. :) – Jul 03 '14 at 00:01

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