Thank you very much Wolfgang, although this is not exactly what I want, your help still gives me some important hints. I guess I should do it myself. By the way, no offending, are you german? I've seen many german guys insterested in Chinese. And the CJK package for LaTeX is designed by Werner Lemberg who is german too. On 12/20/06, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:02:43 +0800 "Zhichu Chen" wrote:

Hi Zhichu Chen,

...

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?

I dont't how the result you wanted looks exactlxy but I hope my attached example file helps you.

To give you a better results give us a specification about the rules how the explanations should be written.

Can you also take a look at the following pages if there is what you want as result:

- http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby/ - http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-ruby - http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/ruby/ - http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ruby/

Wolfgang

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