Text editor that let's you type Japanese right to left, up to down?

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Reply #1 - 2009 December 19, 2:36 pm
bombpersons Member
From: UK Registered: 2008-10-08 Posts: 907 Website

I recently came across this interesting text editor. I thought would be great motivation to use it for writing my dream journal in Japanese. Then I found out it is mac only sad

Does anyone know of something similar that runs on Linux? It would be even better if you could write right to left... It would be so nice to type in big_smile

Reply #2 - 2009 December 19, 3:02 pm
nest0r Member
Registered: 2007-10-19 Posts: 5236 Website

I don't know, you just made me realize Ultraedit doesn't have this capability. Makes me mad.

Reply #3 - 2009 December 19, 3:09 pm
Blank Member
From: California Registered: 2009-07-30 Posts: 104

Vim can do this, although you have to compile with the +rightleft option. Haven't tried it myself though.

EDIT: nevermind, I think this option is actually more suited to languages like Hebrew that are written right-to-left but not vertically like Japanese.

Last edited by Blank (2009 December 19, 3:11 pm)

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Reply #4 - 2009 December 19, 4:13 pm
ocircle Member
Registered: 2009-08-19 Posts: 333 Website

You can write vertically in Word. (Look under Format --> Text direction)

I personally use Dark room to type sometihng on the computer though (mostly in English), although I usually prefer the scraping sensation of pencil on paper.

Last edited by ocircle (2009 December 19, 4:13 pm)

Reply #5 - 2009 December 19, 5:23 pm
wccrawford Member
From: FL US Registered: 2008-03-28 Posts: 1551

I have just confirmed that OpenOffice.org can handle this as well. 

Menu - Format, Page:
Tab - Page:
Text Direction: Right-to-left (Vertical)

Reply #6 - 2009 December 19, 6:28 pm
wildweathel Member
Registered: 2009-08-04 Posts: 255

Cool.  It even switches your font to the vertical version (so that punctuation and the long-vowel dash is correct). 

Too bad my favorite font is horizontal-only.

Reply #7 - 2009 December 20, 4:07 am
bombpersons Member
From: UK Registered: 2008-10-08 Posts: 907 Website

wccrawford wrote:

I have just confirmed that OpenOffice.org can handle this as well. 

Menu - Format, Page:
Tab - Page:
Text Direction: Right-to-left (Vertical)

Nice big_smile Works perfectly!

Reply #8 - 2009 December 20, 5:33 am
ahibba Member
Registered: 2008-09-04 Posts: 528 Website

Yes, all major word processors have this option. Not only for Japanese, but sometimes one need to write in English in that direction.

Reply #9 - 2013 October 22, 4:30 am
toshiromiballza Member
Registered: 2010-10-27 Posts: 277

Four year bump.

Unicode 7.0 (expected to be released in 2014) will include vertical text layout: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr50/

This means vertical input will be possible out of the box with Firefox and all other programs that update to the new standard.

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