Options in the Character Palette menu


    The Character Palette menu contains several options that apply to vertical text. You can rotate characters, control line breaks, and set the method used to calculate leading. (To apply character options, see Selecting and formatting text.)

    Rotate Character

    Changes the orientation of the selected characters from vertical to horizontal. Each character rotates 90 degrees on its own axis within the line of type, resulting in one character placed above the next. You cannot rotate horizontal text or double-byte characters. (Full-width characters are only available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts.) Therefore, any double-byte characters in the selected range will not be rotated.

    Original text compared to text with rotation applied
    Original text compared to text with rotation applied

    Tate-chuu-yoko

    (Also called kumimoji and renmoji) Changes the orientation of the characters from vertical to horizontal. The characters rotate 90 degrees as a group. You can select, edit, and format the rotated text just as you do the vertically-oriented characters. Often used to combine Asian and Roman characters. You cannot apply to horizontal text.

    Original text compared to text with tate-chuu-yoko applied
    Original text compared to text with tate-chuu-yoko applied

    Oidashi

    (Kinsoku Shori or Mojikumi only) Moves characters down a line if necessary to prevent prohibited characters from ending or beginning a line (also known as push-out line breaking).

    Oikomi

    (Kinsoku Shori or Mojikumi only) Moves characters up to the previous line if necessary to prevent prohibited characters from ending or beginning a line (also known as push-in line breaking).

    Burasagari

    Allows single-byte periods, double-byte periods, single-byte commas, and double-byte commas to fall outside the paragraph bounding box.

    Bottom-to-bottom leading

    Measures the space between lines of type from baseline to baseline. (The bottom of most characters rests on the baseline.)

    Top-to-top leading

    Measures the spacing between lines of type from the top of one line to the top of the next line.