Hello Rod On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:01:46 +0900, Rod and Glenda Thomas wrote: > [...] > Ah now if Nisus could rotate text I wouldn't be hankering after that > super-expensive Japanese version of Pagemaker, would I? :-) And you rotate your head for proof reading :-) It's not a joke. Early versions of MS Word J were shipped with special rotated Japanese fonts in order to compensate the lack of vertical writing ability. As for Japanese PM, its ability for Japanese text is so poor that, as far as I know, PM is seldom used for Japanese texts composed in vertical direction. People say that even MS Word 2000 J (Win) is much better. I'm now dreaming of robbing a bank in order to purchase the ultra-super-expensive Japanese version of InDesign (not yet released) which seems to be the first DTP software satisfying the elementary requirements of Japanese typography. <http://www.adobe.co.jp/products/indesign/japanese1.html> <http://www.adobe.co.jp/products/indesign/pdfs/IDJ_AAG.pdf> <http://www.adobe.co.jp/products/indesign/pdfs/IDJ_NFHS.pdf> (all of these documents are in Japanese.) Yusuke KINOSHITA
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