> > Not all books and newspapers use vertical text.
> >
>
> True. Many books do not use vertical text. I think you can probably
> find newspapers that aren't vertical, but not any major ones.
> Magazines
> are probably a mix, but plenty are horizontal. I guess the point is
> that you are just as likely to find horizontal text as vertical text.
> But on the web and email and such, pretty much everything is
> horizontal.
If you are going to do any serious page layout, it's a necessity to have
vertical text available. Some magazines mix vertical and horizontal -- for
example, placing steps in horizontal, in some process, and then descriptive
text between bars -- and its vertical within the bars. A lot of technical
books will use horizontal throughout. For example, the REALbasic Developer's
Guide is horizontal throughout. But my wife's favorite cookbook has text
which describes a certain kind of meal vertically, but the processes are
horizontal. I pretty much limit my own Japanese reading to street signs and
menus.
There's probably an opportunity to create a special kind of control that
would handle a mix of vertical and horizontal text in Japanese, but it seems
to me like it would have to be a layout program on its own. There's a huge
installed base of REALbasic developers in Japan who would probably be
interested in it (again, for the purposes of word pro type products).
Best regards,
Lynn Fredricks
President
Proactive International, LLC
http://www.proactive-intl.com
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