Support tatenakayoko
Submitted by Behdad Esfahbod
Link to original bug (#441033)
Description
Quoting a mail I received:
There is an other missing feature (I think it is missing but I may be wrong) for good Japanese text support called tatenakayoko (縦中横). I did not find any description of it in English (though I did not search that much) but it is quite simple. The meaning can be guessed from the characters : 縦 "tate" here means "vertical", 中 "naka" here means "in, inside", 横 "yoko" means "horizontal". It in fact just consists of putting horizontal text in vertical text. And when I say horizontal text I do not mean just a character, but generally something like 2 to 4 characters (but half-width one, not full-width), most of the time numbers (especially in addresses) or acronyms. Here are a few examples (the text around the images is in Japanese but it is not very important): http://www.japanlink.co.jp/dtpjiten/ta/tatenakayoko.html http://www.sophia-it.com/content/縦中横 Like most features particular to Japanese (like vertical writing, rubi/ruby/furigana), it is the kind of features available only on special Japanese versions of Word, InDesign...