[XeTeX] XeTeX Digest, Vol 48, Issue 34

[Yin Dian]

Hi David,

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:14 AM, David Rangel <rangel at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> CJK & fontspec:
> it would be helpful to be able to load a simple package that
> typeset the rotated fonts (using fontspec) vertically from
> top to bottom, Right to left for Chinese texts.  \rotatebox
> is ok for a short section, but typesetting a book with
> the top down right left is pretty basic for typesetting in

In this case you need to change the output routine to rotate the
entire pages. So package atbegshi or everyshi is what you need.
Shipout should be customized, though.

> Chinese. Usage of the packages gezhu, and zhspacing. are not
> entirely transparent, and they do not automatically work
> with TeXlive and XeLaTeX.

Do not use package gezhu in this case if you don't need warichu
support. It does NOT deal with changing the output routine to rotate
the page or other things related to vertical typesetting. Package
zhspacing is also not necessary if you don't need to mix English and
Chinese together and you don't need to change the punctuation
spacings.

I wonder what you mean by "not entirely transparent". hehe.

Regards.

-YIN Dian