Using Right-to-Left, Complex Text Layout, and Vertical Text

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NeoOffice has strong support for languages that use non-Roman scripts, including those scripts which use bidirectional input and complex text layout, as well as support for the native Mac OS X input methods used by many of these languages. This means NeoOffice can be used to input Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Hindi, Chinese and Japanese, among many others.

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Bidi and RTL text

  • fairly simple
  • installing RTL langpack ticks the box in the prefs, enables directional buttons
  • for other UIs, tick the box in the prefs manually
  • use directional buttons
  • change native input method
  • type away

Complex text layout

  • ligatures and glyph reordering
  • Java 1.4.2 is buggy; sends wrong glyph codes to Neo in certain cases [jp period, matras]
    • Mac OS X bug, nothing we can do; file bug reports with Apple
  • Requires AAT fonts for Arabic, Indic languages [link to fonts page]

Vertical text

Vertical text, used in classical Chinese and Japanese (as well as in Mongolian, which may not be supported) is somewhat non-intuitive to enter. The following are the steps Patrick Luby uses when testing vertical Japanese text input in Writer:

You can insert vertical text, but it is not intuitive. Here are the steps that I use when I test Japanese vertical input in Writer:

  1. From the View menu, select the Toolbars submenu and then the Drawing menu item so that the Drawing toolbar appears at the bottom of the screen.
  2. Click on the "T" icon that is rotated 90 degrees (i.e. the "fallen over" T icon).
  3. Click an area in the document and drag the mouse to create a box.
  4. Type your Japanese text in this box.

I don't really like this "text box" approach, but it is how OpenOffice.org (which NeoOffice is based on) handles vertical text.

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