On Dec 22, 2010, at 5:46 AM, John Joyce wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Abdul Sowayan wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> As I understood it several years ago, there was no native support in Cocoa >> for rendering vertical Japanese text. Note that certain punctuation and >> compound characters are supposed to render differently when drawing in the >> vertical orientation than they normally would when drawing left-to-right >> (which is how the font normally specifies how the character is rendered)… >> Has anything changed on this front? Is there any support in Quartz for >> this? >> >> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> Abdul >> > Hi Abdul > It is not about native support, the text system itself allows you to build > it, but it is just that you have to build your own layout manager and such. > The glyphs all exist in most good fonts, but you'll have to build your own > text layout rules, including swapping the appropriate vertical glyphs (not > many). I've been looking at it myself. Not simple, but possible.
I did this in Java a long time ago: http://oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2002/03/22/vertical_text.html It handles layout for punctuation and half-height characters._______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
