Dear Texers, I am typesetting some traditional Chinese articles. They are typesetted in vertical, and the reading order is from right to left. This can be done by Hans' \startvertical . . . \stopvertical pair. But as shown in the attached file, there are some famous notes, descriptions and explanations to these articles. The traditional way, in Chinese, to typeset these notes is rather to insert them in some small fonts (say, half size of the \bodyfontsize) right below the word to be explained, than to use footnotes which is common in English. I've tried some ways, e.g., use \startcolumnsetspan . . . \stopcolumnsetspan to put the body text across the note text, but all failed. Can anyone give me some clue? -- Sincerely yours, Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------