Re: Need word processor that can sort lists

From: Travers Naran (tnaran_at_no-more-virii-please.direct.ca)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 06:11:35 GMT

スリン・トゥア wrote:
> Travers Naran wrote:
>
>> スリン・トゥア wrote:
>>
>>> Interesting. I admit im not a heavy office suite user, but the very
>>> first thing I
>>> did with open office was test 縦書, and it seemed to work.
>>
>>
>>
>> How did you do that? What setting do I use?
>
>
> Well, lets see.
> Open Office 1.0, "Writer"
>
> Format.Page, "Page" tab. Change writing direction to "Right to left
> (vertical)"
>
> Paste in some text, witness 縦書.

It just looks like the text get rotated 90 degrees. The cursor movements
are what I'd expect, but I have to turn my head 90 degrees to read the
characters. Trying "Rotate" in the Character formatting rotates the whole
line back to where it was.

> Hrm, if you dont see this, try "Options.Settings", goto "Language Settings.
> languages" and make sure Asian Language Support is enabled.

Done awhile ago. :-)