I think I might be able to shed some light, I have encountered a problem with vertical writing recently too - which I had to kind of munge to get around. When I write any Japanese text which requires a dash (choonpu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%8Donpu) or parentheses, the parentheses or dash do not get rendered vertically (i.e. rotated 90 degrees), they only get placed vertically along with the rest of the text. I am unsure if this is a font issue or something else, but my solution ended up being to put a space in the text, then create a new text object with the characters I wanted, then rotate them 90 degrees. This is not optimal though :P I've attached an example inkscape svg (with the font used, and the rendered png), which shows the text as it is typed, vs the text as it should be. Hopefully I've made it clear enough :P (OS of svg origin: Linux, Inkscape v. 0.91) Perhaps the new 'text-orientation' property will solve this. I haven't tried it yet :) On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 1:32 AM, 服部 頼義 <yori5070@...1147...> wrote:

Thank you very much. The bottom is the text written by a font for vertical writing. I don't just make a font revolve 90 times. Some fonts are replaced. A way of a change is defined by a font. It's an example.

What is the current state of Japanese punctuation in vertical writing in Inkscape / SVG / Pango? BTW, https://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-jlreq-20090604/#fig2_7-en may be relevant. -Arlo James Barnes

On Sun, 2016-03-27 at 15:58 -0600, Arlo Barnes wrote: Inkscape trunk should be doing (via Pango) the correct OpenType glyph substitution to support proper Japanese punctuation. Fonts must include the proper OpenType glyphs and tables for this to work. If something is not working, submit a test SVG using a freely available font. Tav

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Chris Tooley <euxneks@...155...> wrote: The filename for EPSON 太行書体Ｂ (as seen in your attachment of the font in this thread last year) is epgyobld.ttf and mirrored in the URL you just linked. If we break that into parts, we see that it says ep for Epson; gyo, for *gyōsho <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_calligraphy#Techniques>* ( semi-cursive <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-cursive_script>) calligraphy (for just like serif fonts for Roman characters, which are based off nib- or quill-based writing methods plus evolution of style over time, many Japanese fonts are based off several calligraphy styles. Often there will be two variants in a font family, minchō <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_(typefaces)#Japan> which is also called regular <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_script> or kaisho, and gothic, a very sans-serif-looking type style. See http://www.kataaro.com/Images/fonts.gif [thanks to Kataaro <http://www.kataaro.com/Departments/Embroidery/Embroidery-Information.aspx... embroiderers for that] for comparison); and bld to indicate it is typographically bold (also what the fullwidth B stands for in the name proper; as to the rest, 書体 means 'typeface' and 太行 seems to be the name of the font [not exactly sure what it means, the first kanji is "fat" and the second "bamboo"; if you web search both together you get news and pictures about a Chinese jet engine]). So you want a bold semi-regular CJK font, under a free software license (I like OFL from SIL). Some web searching will probably get you there, but to start you off, this List of CJK fonts on Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CJK_fonts> is useful and tells you about licensing. -Arlo James Barnes