[texhax] Diagonal text?

[David Carlisle]

On 3 February 2016 at 13:26, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I was wondering if it would be possible and how to produce, in plain TeX, some
> form of oblique, diagonal text, something like:
>
> p
>  l
>   a
>    i
>     n
>
>        T
>         e
>          X
>
>                                             X
>                                       e
>                                 T
>
>                         n
>                   i
>             a
>       l
> p
>
>                      X
>                   e
>                T
>
>             n
>          i
>       a
>    l
> p
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Rodolfo
>



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\x
\fi}


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