Open Office Writer cannot do vertical text and numbers

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Vertical text as button is "Only available when Asian language support is enabled." (quoted from Help file).

To get vertical text type your text and rotate it 90 degrees.


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floris_v wrote:
Vertical text as button is "Only available when Asian language support is enabled." (quoted from Help file).

To get vertical text type your text and rotate it 90 degrees.

It's true that vertical text is only available with Asian language supported, and if you select that you do have the ability to use any font to write vertically, if you want the letters to remain upright and read down the page. You'll find that a number of other things change with this option selected, and some dialogs become a bit busier; but if you really need this type of vertical text, it might be worth the extra stuff.

Otherwise, carnold. if what you want is something that reads sideways (like a book spine, for example) then you'd just use text rotation as floris_v suggests.


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Subject: Open Office Writer cannot do vertical text and numbers

In OOo 3.1.1 on Kubuntu 9.10 I cannot show numbers vertically inWriter. Steps to reproduce:1* Open a new document (LTR or RTL, both are affected)2* Create 10x1 table (10 columns, 1 row)3* In one of the cells paste this info (without quotes):"""דותן כהן054-7881700""""4* Select the entire table5* Format -> Character -> Position -> Rotation -> 90 degressBy playing with the LTR/RTL settings (Format -> Paragraph -> Alignment-> Properties -> Text direction) I can get the text _or_ the numbersto be vertical, but not both.Can someone confirm this before I file a bug? Thanks!-- Dotan Cohenhttp://bido.comhttp://what-is-what.comPlease CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do notread all list mail._______________________________________________Linux-il mailing listLinux-il at cs.huji.ac.ilhttp://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il 
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