Re: [tlug] But Nano does do regex. Tate Japanese style text editing.

[Edward Wright <edw@example.com>]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:41:49PM +0900, David Riggs wrote:
> 
> Different topic: Is there an Open Source tool that will do tate (up and 
> down) style Japanese word processing? Ichitaro is amazing, and has a 
> Linux version, but it is really a little too expensive for my occasional 
> use, and anyway, Open Source (" besides creating a religious cult" -- as 
> Stephen put it) is a good thing.
> 
> All I want is the ability to put in kanbun style furigana and the kaeri 
> ten, or tendoku, those little ichi and ni and henkyaku that go along the 
> left side of the text. Ichitaro shows that this is possible, and even 
> saves it in html, but the result, displayed as yoko of course, is really 
> unusable.

OpenOffice does vertical.....  don't know about the furigana, etc. You could
"fake" it by inserting narrow lines and small fonts between your main text
I expect...