Enabling and Setting Up Asian Fonts and Formatting

One of the big new features is Asian language support. To enable it and use it, just follow these steps.

Note

You need to enable Asian Language Support to have the three new vertical text tools from Draw, available in Draw, Impress, and Writer.

1. Choose Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages. Select the Enabled option at the bottom of the window in Figure 5-10.

   Figure 5-10. Enabling Asian language support

   

2. To specify default fonts for new documents, choose Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > Basic Fonts (Asian Language). Select the appropriate options in Figure 5-11.

   Figure 5-11. Basic default options for Asian languages

   

3. Choose Tools > Options > Language Settings > Writing Aids. Select the appropriate options in Figure 5-12.

   Figure 5-12. Selecting writing aids options

   

4. Choose Tools > Options > Language Settings > Searching in Japanese. Select the appropriate options in Figure 5-13.

   Figure 5-13. Selecting Japanese search options

   

   Note

   To see this option, Asian Language Support must be enabled; see Figure 5-10.

5. Choose Tools > Options > Language Settings > Asian Layout. Select the appropriate options in Figure 5-14.

   Figure 5-14. Selecting writing aids options

   

Note

To see this option, Asian Language Support must be enabled; see Figure 5-10.

Once you've done the basic setup, go ahead and use the formatting in your documents. The following illustrations show some of the windows where it's available.

1. To set formatting for Asian languages, choose Format > Character > Asian. Layout. Select the appropriate options in Figure 5-15.

   Figure 5-15. Asian language layout setup

   

2. Choose Format > Character > Font; select the appropriate options in Figure 5-16.

   Figure 5-16. Select Asian font and size

   

3. Choose Format > Paragraph and select the Asian Typography tab. Select the appropriate options in Figure 5-18.

   Figure 5-18. Select Ruby text options

   

   Figure 5-17. Select Asian Typography paragraph formatting

   

4. Choose Format > Ruby to specify Ruby text ( explanations corresponding to Asian characters ). Select the appropriate options in Figure 5-18.

5. Choose Format > Styles > Catalog > New or Modify; the Asian Layout and Asian Topography tabs let you specify style characteristics (Figure 5-19).

   Figure 5-19. Specify Asian settings in styles

   

6. Choose Format > Character/Case to choose how case is evaluated in Asian fonts (Figure 5-20).

   Figure 5-20. Selecting character and case options