Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>
> On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 08:30:55 -0400, Peter T. Daniels
> <grammatim@...> wrote:
>
> > And if "rotate letter 90°" were a simple matter, [...]
>
> It is. IrfanView, a really-good freeware viwer and image processor for
> M$ Windows, rotates large JPEGs speedily without problems. Countless
> paint/drawing programs, afaik, can also do it easily. What's more
> time-consuming is to rotate by an arbitrary angle, but if one regards
> characters as small images, it takes only microseconds (if that long) to
> rotate them by a quarter turn, or flip them about vert. or horiz. axes.

But computers don't think of characters as "small images," do they? They
think of them as type.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...