Re: vertical or rotated gtk_label_new("TEXT") possible???

From: Paul Davis <pbd Op Net>
To: Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>
Cc: Chris Seberino <seberino spawar navy mil>, gtk-list gnome org
Subject: Re: vertical or rotated gtk_label_new("TEXT") possible???
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 10:55:10 -0500

>> >Is it possible to have gtk_label_new("TEXT")
>> >be vertical or rotated???
>> 
>> no. X (which GDK relies on in the version of GTK+ that you are almost
>> certainly using) provides no facilities for text rotation.
>
>this is not the full truth since X11R6 does support rotated glyphs, see 
> 
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/x-faq/part7/section-45.html

rotated glyphs do not make for rotated text :)

to get vertical text you still have to place each glyph
individually. xvertext can take care of this, i suppose.

References:
- Re: vertical or rotated gtk_label_new("TEXT") possible???
  - From: Sven Neumann

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