vertical text spacing problem

[shanen (Shannon Jacobs)]

When Japanese text is entered in a tatagaki layout in a text box in an OpenOffice document, there is no vertical space between the characters, either on the display or when printed. I tried various layout settings and also different fonts, but none of them would work correctly. Tatagaki means the characters are vertical, and the lines go in columns from right to left. (Normal Japanese books are printed that way.)

Do you need a copy of a file that shows the problem?

[shanen (Shannon Jacobs) (shanen)]

Something changed about this bug, and I received a notification, but I don't know what changed and I don't know if you want confirmation or the file or something else.

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

i changed the addected package so the open office guys have a look at it.,.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Do you still have this problem with openoffice.org 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2 in Ubuntu 8.04?

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[shanen (Shannon Jacobs) (shanen)]

What new information did you ask for? The bug still existed the last time I checked, but you never asked for anything else. I understand you want to close the open bug reports, but shouldn't you fix the bugs first?

Would it help to remind you that Microsoft Office does print tategaki correctly?

[Pablo Castellano (pablocastellano)]

Thank you for your bug report. To maintain a respectful atmosphere, please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ . Bug reports are handled by humans, the majority of whom are volunteers, so please bear this in mind.

If you look 3 comments above mine you'll see the information that Chris had asked to you.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Can you please attach an example document exhibiting this problem?

[kite (whosekiteneverfly)]

Yes, here's an example.
I'm sorry for keeping you wait.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Can you include a screenshot showing me what it looks like on your screen? The example looks fine to me as best as I can tell. It is fully readable and has proper spacing (I think)?

Chris

[Alex Forencich (alex-alexelectronics)]

I'm seeing the spacing problem in openoffice.org 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2 in Ubuntu 8.04. In the attached screenshot, the red border is what it is doing and the green border is close to what it is supposed to be (with spaces added manually). The characters should also be centered left-to-right, not aligned along the right edge. Each character should take up the same amount of space vertically, including punctuation. Punctuation and small hiragana and katakana should end up in the upper right corner of the space. The opening quotation mark should end up in the lower right corner while the closing quotation mark should end up in the upper left corner. The separator dot should appear in the center.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Was the attachment from Kite actually supposed to show Japanese text? All I saw at all was the english bit in the bug.png attached by Alex.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

It appears I must not have a usable font on my system to display this file and I already have copied all of the Microsoft related fonts (655+) to my system to test for bugs in the past, besides all the default Ubuntu ones. Does anyone know which font and where to get the one to display the Japanese text?

Thanks,

Chris

[Alex Forencich (alex-alexelectronics)]

It is quite possible that you couldn't see any text because you were a victim of bug 223433. Bug 223433 will make vertical text disappear if it's screen size is too large. The attached file should rule out problems with 223433.

Also, you could try adding the japanese language to your computer. I believe the default Japanese font is DejaVu Sans.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

bug 223433 seems to be involved with what you zoom % is set to. I can't see the fonts at any zoom level. I already have DejaVu Sans installed and can see the horizontal text fine.

[Alex Forencich (alex-alexelectronics)]

Can you see the horizontal japanese text, or just the english text?

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I'm sorry I wasn't clear about it. I can see the english text (horizontal and vertical) and the japanese horizontal text. I can't see the Japanese vertical text at all regardless of zoom % level.

[kite (whosekiteneverfly)]

OK. I finally took the screenshot.
And what's worse, I found other cases that a vertical text (both in
Japanese and English) looks odd.
But they are hardly to tell.
So next time I will perhaps mail you a movie which show them.

[Alex Forencich (alex-alexelectronics)]

That sounds like this bug is being masked by bug 223433 for you. For that one, some fonts don't display at all, and some are dependent on screen size (font size and zoom level).

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Alex,

Does this bug sound like it is what you are seeing?

http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=13624

I am not familiar enough with Japanese to determine if that is the same issue or not.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!