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#47347 - 03/28/14 11:44 AM Vertical text output
sakki23 Offline
OL Newbie

Registered: 03/28/14
Posts: 2
I’m working with Japanese text and variable data (from database which has Japanese names and non- Japanese – Roman names)
and because Japanese characters need to be vertical I use Vertical Layout option, but besides the Japanese text I have a variable PRICE which value is a number and NAME variable from database which in some cases is not in Japanese characters but in regular Roman, and Vertical Layout in cases of a number and Roman alphabet just turns those words for 90 degrees.

Does anybody know how to get a vertical text output ( of a number or Roman alphabet name from database)?

Example 1 : If a PRICE variable has a value of “9000”, the output should be:
9
0
0
0

Example 2 : If a NAME variable has a value of “sandra”, the output should be:
s
a
n
d
r
a

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#47376 - 03/31/14 01:03 PM Re: Vertical text output [Re: sakki23]
Raphael Lalonde Lefebvre Offline
OL Expert

Registered: 10/14/05
Posts: 4956
Loc: Objectif Lune Montreal
Hi sakki,

It's actually working as intended, as you normally don't write roman numbers vertically like you would with Japanese characters, unless you flip it 90 degrees like this function does.

There is a workaround however: shrink your text box until you only have space for a single character per lines, and it will automatically wrap on each characters, thus giving you the result that you expect.

Hope that helps!

Regards,
Raphaël Lalonde Lefebvre

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#47381 - 04/01/14 03:52 AM Re: Vertical text output [Re: sakki23]
sakki23 Offline
OL Newbie

Registered: 03/28/14
Posts: 2
Raphael,

I am aware that Vertical Layout is working as intended, so it vertically flips only Asian characters and everything else is flipped for 90 degrees to the right.
But the issue is how to write, for example, numbers vertically aligned within Japanese text.
And Roman names vertically aligned within Japanese text.

The solution we came up with is that for variables that we know are numbers and Roman letters, we used another font which flips every character for 90 degrees to the left (for example StraitSide.ttf), using that with Vertical Layout we get every character in vertical position.

If there is some other solution, please, let me know.

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