On 23-6-2011 11:23, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 23.06.2011 um 21:11 schrieb Hans Hagen:
On 23-6-2011 8:52, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 23.06.2011 um 20:23 schrieb S Barmeier:
I guess vertical typesetting is a little more involved, but as far as horizontal typesetting goes, most of the spacing is coded into the font already (monospacing).
ConTeXt MkIV doesn’t support vertical writing but with a little bit of TeX knowledge it’s possible to add it, the result is not perfect [1] (there is no space between the characters) but it shows it can be done.
just use columnsets with 1em width columns
This is no option when quotation marks are used and other characters which can’t be broken at the end of line. Another advantage of LuaTeX’s vertical mode is that you can use \underbar and other commands which aren’t possible with columnsets.
if used at all; if I'm right vertical does not mean that all such properties 'rotate'
The output in my example would be nicer when the width (or height?) of each character had been 1em (or more).
It depends on what one wants. Using the vertical (rotated) variant in it's simple (traditional) way proably can work at some point (but it needs to be properly integrated in the page builder then and we probably should forget about figure placement and display environments (starttyping etc). If one just wants vertical stacking (with quad*quad characters) then columnsets are a nice way in between as then we can still use figures). Anyway, a proper model is needed, not some ad-hoc hackery. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------