Top to bottom Japanese writing

[sardinops_99]

Can NWP do top to bottom Japanese writing? IOW can it start at the top right of the page and go down to the bottom left? I know it can do right to left but can't see how to do this. Thanks Rod

[Groucho]

In a word, no (sorry). Not presently. Maybe they are going to implement it. Who knows? Martin can say.

Greetings, Henry.

[adryan]

G'day, all

One of the Japanese-speaking members will probably answer this question, but I tried an experiment, just out of curiosity. New document, multiple columns, choose “Right to Left” from Sections palette. It does what you want! To get a single character in each row of a column, you will probably have to fiddle with column width, font size and/or kerning.

[sardinops_99]

Thanks! Time's run out on me as I've printed already, but I'll give it a go later. Thanks for your reply

[phspaelti]

G'day, all

One of the Japanese-speaking members will probably answer this question, but I tried an experiment, just out of curiosity. New document, multiple columns, choose “Right to Left” from Sections palette. It does what you want! To get a single character in each row of a column, you will probably have to fiddle with column width, font size and/or kerning.

The problem with this approach, aside from being a major kludge, is that the punctuation and small kana will all be in the wrong place.