Re: [users] RE: vertical Chinese text in 1995

[Avraham Hanadari]

èèïI did as you suggested, and discovered that once a few characters 
are rotated one can continue to type, and the subsequent characters 
follow vertically in the same line. I placed the character line on the 
right side of my page, but when I hit "Enter" I did NOT go to a new 
verticle line to the left of the first one. I tried different 
combinations with right to left text entry (as for Hebrew, Arabic and 
such), but that didn't help. Is there a way to continue verticle 
paragraph entry or am I expecting too much? I suppose I could write 
within a table, and set the table right to left, so that "tab" would go 
to the next cell to the left. That would accomplish the ask for the 
infrequent times one needs such antiquated text entry.

I know practically no one writes Chinese this way any more, but it's a 
point of interest for me, and with some very limited use in scholarly 
texts. Word XP does this easily, with all the other formatting items, 
such as bullets and indentation. I just assumed it would be in OO. 
Evidently the East Asian user base is still too small.

Thanks again,
Avraham (ååç)

Alec McAllister wrote:
I'm in Windows XP. I'm almost sure I once did it in some Open Office 
version. I know I can do it in Word. Can someone please tell 
me how to 
enter vertical Chinese text in 1995?

Thanks in advance, Avraham
   

The way I do it is to type the Chinese, highlight it, then Format ...
Character ... Position ... Rotation ... 270 degrees.
Cheers.
Alec. 

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