This allows you to type Chinese vertically, in columns that read right-to-left, *without* rotating text. Format...Page...Text Direction: Right-to-left (vertical)... and then start typing Chinese.
You might also have to set Format...Paragraph...Alignment...Text-to-text Alignment: Top. Incidentally, there is one East Asian language that is, or at least was, written in vertical columns reading from left to right: Mongolian Traditional Script. It so happens that my university is one of the very few that teaches Mongolian, and OO is the only word-processor that I've found so far that enables the columns to run left to right. Unfortunately, OO seems to have no "Text Direction: left-to-right (vertical)" option, which would be a very welcome addition. There aren't many Mongolian fonts, and most of those seem to rotate the characters through 90 degrees, i.e. the text appears horizontally, and you put your head on one side to read the result. Just to make it really interesting, some fonts have the characters rotated clockwise, others anticlockwise, so you end up formatting the Mongolian text RtoL or LtoR (horizontal) and then rotating the text back again ― a clumsy work-around. Still, it's better than Word for Windows, which doesn't seem to have the features to handle it at all. Alec McAllister > -----Original Message----- > From: lucas wyrsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 11:08 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [users] RE: vertical Chinese text in 1995 > > > 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]
