Can I have a paragraph (not a frame) upside down?

Question

Is it possible to create a paragraph style that makes the text go upside-down? I don't mean a text frame that goes upside-down or mirrored, but just aparagraph in running upside-up text.

Answer 1

@Gerben – rotating individual characters by, say 180°, is possible by scripting. But I would not recommend it, because the result is horrible. InDesign is not able to do a decent kerning at all!
An example:
Suppose you create a Character Style with the name of "CharStyle1" (without the quotation marks!) and use the following JavaScript (ExtendScript) snippet:
var d = app.activeDocument;
var myCharacterStyleName = "CharStyle1";
var myRotationAngle = 180;
d.characterStyles.itemByName(myCharacterStyleName).characterRotation = myRotationAngle;
You'll get a Character Style, that will rotate every single character by the defined amount (in this case 180°):
And here the results:
On the left applied to a whole paragraph, on the right applied to a single word:
Ok. It's unfortunate, that the characters are rotated one by one and not the whole selection. We could try to correct that by scripting another property:
The Character Direction.
But the result is also horrible:
Rotating a single character should work for you. But you have somehow to  fix the bad kerning.
Uwe