What I don't know how to do, or if it's even possible, is typesetting a book / story / poem in such layout. I am basically looking for two approaches:
- LibreOffice Writer way. Here I know how to write Japanese, I even have some nice free, but sadly not libre fonts, but I don't know how to set vertical text layout. Anyone knows if it is possible and if so, how to do it?
- TeX way. I've been using plain TeX for ages but I still neither know how to typeset Japanese nor how to use vertical text layout there. Any pointers for both of these are welcome.
EDIT: ad 1. Looks like I have been blind. Thanks to Vorbote for useful links. It's as easy as doing Format->Page->Page->Text Direction = Right-to-left (vertical).
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I'd recommend looking into XeTeX and the fontspec and xeCJK packages for vertical typesetting.
you should have a look at context. it shines for non-western usecases. (it is very nice for western text as well ;)).
I'll leave you some links. :-)
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=97615
http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Using_Right-to-Left,_Complex_Text_Layout,_and_Vertical_Text
So which font are you using?
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