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The following example (links to pdf) in the TeX Showcase has no provided source. The book Fearless Symmetry by Ash and Gross seems to use a similar style. Where can I find hints for typesetting publication standard articles/books as above in TeX. I looked around a bit but couldnt find much from else from keyword searches.

Particularly, I am looking at the chapter headings, title page design, and the mirror effect. Sorry for the title, as I dont really know what its called.

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yayu
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  • I'm curious, did you manage to build a macro that does below-the-line mirroring of arbitrary text with alpha blending as in the Fearless Symmetry book? Not that I need it right now but if you already built it, I'd be curious to see the code. – Christian Jun 18 '12 at 17:46

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This would be a general solution to your question of mirroring, as supplied by the graphicx package. It provides \reflectbox{<stuff>} which reflects <stuff> horizontally. It is equivalent to \scalebox{-1}[1]{<stuff>} where the syntax is \scalebox{<h-scale>}[<v-scale>]{<stuff>} and h-scale/v-scale are scaling factors. For vertical reflection, one can use \scalebox{1}[-1]{<stuff>}, and add a vertical raise of \depth (using \raisebox). Otherwise, the reflection is performed from the baseline. Here are a couple of examples to showcase the symmetries of reflection with a variety of macros from graphicx:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/graphicx
\begin{document}
\textbf{Horizontal reflection}: \par
Here is some text that is \reflectbox{reflected} horizontally. \par
Here is some text that is \scalebox{-1}[1]{also reflected} horizontally. \par \bigskip
\textbf{Vertical reflection}: \par
Here is some text \raisebox{\depth}{\scalebox{1}[-1]{reflected}} vertically. \par \bigskip
\textbf{Horizontal + vertical reflection}: \par
Here is some text that is \raisebox{\depth}{\scalebox{-1}[-1]{reflected}} both horizontally and vertically. \par
Here is some text that is \raisebox{\depth}{\rotatebox{180}{also reflected}} both horizontally and vertically.
\end{document}
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  • is it possible to reflect horizontally the whole document? – Sigur May 12 '15 at 10:16
  • @Sigur: Yes, using atbegshi. For example, consider: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{graphicx,lipsum,atbegshi,showframe} \AtBeginShipout{\setbox\AtBeginShipoutBox=\hbox{\hspace*{\dimexpr1in-\marginparsep}\reflectbox{\box\AtBeginShipoutBox}}} \begin{document} \lipsum[1-50] \end{document} – Werner May 13 '15 at 00:24
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With ConTeXt you can use \mirror. Here an example:

\starttext
    Some text\par
    \mirror{Some Text}\par
    \input knuth\par
    \mirror{\vbox{\input knuth\par}}
\stoptext

Some info here.

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A simple mirror effect can be created using \reflectbox{<text>} (short for \scalebox{-1}[1]{<text>}) from the graphicx package. The adjustbox package has the same effects using the reflect key: \adjustbox{reflect}{<text>}, which makes sense if you have more effects you want to apply.

You can mirror a text downwards using \scalebox{1}[-1]{<text>}.

More complex effects require a package like TikZ. See the pgfmanual which has this effect on it own start page, inclusive code.

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