Excellent point Avraham! Be informed that in Classical Chinese there is no left to right, but only right to left writing and there is another writing as well, from top to bottom. Regards Lucas http://lucaswyrschchinese.blogspot.com/
On 4/26/05, Avraham Hanadari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 谢谢！I 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 (安德生) > > 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. > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > The louder he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons. > Ralph Waldo Emerson > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
