Feature Request: Add the ability to display text on a display, at an angle.

[andrewjswan]

Component name

display

Link to component documentation on our website

https://esphome.io/components/display/#drawing-static-text

Describe the enhancement

Add the ability to display text on a display (say eInk or another), at an angle.
Currently it is only possible to display horizontally.

Use cases

For example, it will be possible to display text vertically, for example in graphs, tables, or other design elements.

Anything else?

Horizontal

it.print(it.get_width(), 0, id(my_font), TextAlign::TOP_RIGHT, "Right aligned");

Vertical

it.print(it.get_width(), 0, id(my_font), TextAlign::TOP_RIGHT, "Right aligned", 90);

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[clydebarrow]

That capability is already available in the lvgl component. Re-implementing it in the native display drawing component would be a significant amount of work.

[andrewjswan]

lvgl component

LVGL is not very convenient in my opinion, especially for eInk displays. Or when you need logic in output.
I have not found a single working example of LGVL and eInk yet.

would be a significant amount of work.

I looked briefly, there is not much work, you need to add angle accounting to two functions, the function for determining the size of the text output, and the text output.