How to write any text in the others orientation

Question

How to turn text orientation in the four diferent positions?

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Any text.

Don’t forget to accept the answer (tick the green ‘V’ at the left side of the answer). — Sveinung, Aug 17 '12 at 07:33
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Besides accepting @GonzaloMedina's answer, it would be nice if your blog post also attributed the solution to him. — henrique, Sep 16 '12 at 01:11

score 21 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 03 '17 at 13:37

You can do this with \scalebox from the graphicx package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\LaTeX\scalebox{-1}[1]{\LaTeX}

\scalebox{1}[-1]{\LaTeX}\scalebox{-1}[-1]{\LaTeX}

\end{document}

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TikZ is another option:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\node (a) {\LaTeX};
\node[xscale=-1,right=of a] (b) {\LaTeX};
\node[yscale=-1,below=of a] (c) {\LaTeX};
\node[xscale=-1,yscale=-1,right=of c]{\LaTeX};
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

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And PSTricks offers \psscalebox:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pstricks}

\begin{document}

\noindent\LaTeX\psscalebox{-1 1}{\LaTeX}\\
\psscalebox{1 -1}{\LaTeX}\psscalebox{-1 -1}{\LaTeX}

\end{document}

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@RegisdaSilva You're welcome! – Gonzalo Medina Aug 17 '12 at 13:23 — Gonzalo Medina, Aug 17 '12 at 13:23

How to write any text in the others orientation

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