On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Gerrit wrote: > vertical Japanese texts (not just a paragraph or a text box, but the entire > document): Everything like columns, page break, sections etc. would work > flawlessly . Incorporating Western text in the text would also work without > any problems.
I think it's unlikely that the rotation hack's results would be "flawless" on any but the simplest texts. Among other things, vertical Japanese requires special line-breaking rules - such as period and comma protruding into the bottom margin if they would otherwise appear at the start of the next line. Vertical Japanese is usually set on a grid, both horizontally and vertically, and grids have always been a problem for TeX - it likes to make spaces stretchable and expand lines to accomodate math, all of which features have to be carefully tweaked to preserve a grid layout. Western text mixed in raises its own problems; depending on context it might need to be rotated or not, and the spacing rules for it are unlikely to match those of generic (La)TeX applied to rotated glyphs. -- Matthew Skala [email protected] People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
