How do I flip individual characters in a text frame.

I have some outlined text, with tracking decreased so they overlap, and every second letter's size slightly different so the paths don't merge.
I would like the 1st letter to be on top, without breaking it all into individual text frames, and i don't want to create any outlines.
I have uploaded a pic describing my question in detail.
[IMG]http://i62.tinypic.com/33xy744.png[/IMG]
Is it possible?
Thanks,
Tim

Finally I got something:
1. A table with one cell.
2. A paragraph style set to Global Paragraph Composer
3. A cell style set to RTL
4. The table cell orientation set to a rotation angle of 180°
5. All characters in the cell rotated by script to 180°
Here the table cell:
And here the view from the story editor:
And here the text frame of the one-cell-table minimized and anchored inline in a normal text flow:
Uwe

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