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So, in case I ever learn enough chinese to write a book, does OSX / Storyist support writing vertically?

I'd also like to see Modern Hebrew support (right-to-left) and Bronze Age Minoan support (spiral) because you clearly do not have enough to do. (Call me a Tiger laggard will ya!)

 

Exploring the markets,

-Thoth.

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I'd also like to see Modern Hebrew support (right-to-left) and Bronze Age Minoan support (spiral) because you clearly do not have enough to do. (Call me a Tiger laggard will ya!)

 

Exploring the markets,

-Thoth.

 

Storyist uses the Cocoa text system, which supports both languages. Give it a shot. You can set the language/input method using the International System Panel. I'm told Japanese works just fine.

 

-Steve

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Storyist uses the Cocoa text system, which supports both languages. Give it a shot. You can set the language/input method using the International System Panel. I'm told Japanese works just fine.

 

-Steve

Shoot. No spiral support on System Preferences/International. My Bronze Age Minoan fans are going to be disappointed.

-Thoth.

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Storyist uses the Cocoa text system, which supports both languages. Give it a shot. You can set the language/input method using the International System Panel. I'm told Japanese works just fine.

-Stev.

 

Oh Steve, I can type Chinese fine; and have in the past for homework. 你看吗? But I meant, that with books in asian languages, the sentences are often vertical.

 

 

Like this:

这	我
不	没
是	有
我	车
的	 。
车
。

 

Rather than:

这不是我的车。 我没有车。

 

I was curious about the possibility of doing THAT without writing a character of the next five sentences on each line.

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Oh Steve, I can type Chinese fine; and have in the past for homework. 你看吗? But I meant, that with books in asian languages, the sentences are often vertical.

 

 

Like this:

这	我
不	没
是	有
我	车
的	 。
车
。

 

Rather than:

这不是我的车。 我没有车。

 

I was curious about the possibility of doing THAT without writing a character of the next five sentences on each line.

 

Sorry SP. Read too fast.

 

I don't have any plans for this.

 

-Steve

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Have you considered an editor like Vim or Emacs?

I know they can do folding (for SP) but can they do a decent Bronze Age Minoan spiral? I think that would require me building a macro and, damn it Jim, I'm a doctor/writer not a Unix programmer.

-Thoth.

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I know they can do folding (for SP) but can they do a decent Bronze Age Minoan spiral? I think that would require me building a macro and, damn it Jim, I'm a doctor/writer not a Unix programmer.

 

These are full blown software developer editors. You can make them do just about anything if you're willing to spend some time writing a plugin. Vim supports Ruby, Perl, or Python for plugins, and Emacs uses Lisp.

 

IF

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Yes, they're very nice but (and I suppose I'm beating a dead horse with this) will they do spiral without my having to write a plugin/macro/spell to make it happen?

 

(You do realize that I'm kidding about my need for spiral printing, right?)

-Thoth.

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Yes, they're very nice but (and I suppose I'm beating a dead horse with this) will they do spiral without my having to write a plugin/macro/spell to make it happen?

 

They will absolutely do spiral once you pay someone to write the plugin.

 

IF

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They will absolutely do spiral once you pay someone to write the plugin.

First: Cool but obvious.

Second: If I'm going to pay out that kind of money I might as well pay someone to write the text too. Hey, you may be onto something here!

-Thoth.

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