# A way to change word format direction (left to right, right to left, top to bottom, bottom to top)

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**Category:** Ideas\
**Created:** [January 7, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/a-way-to-change-word-format-direction-left-to-right-right-to-left-top-to-bottom-bottom-to-top/6741 "2025-01-07T00:05:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![ML8991](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@ML8991](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/ML8991)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/a-way-to-change-word-format-direction-left-to-right-right-to-left-top-to-bottom-bottom-to-top/6741/1 "2025-01-07T00:05:17Z")

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Not sure how to link an associated request feature, so excuse my ignorance.  
But was just making this as was thinking that, if possible, it would be quite nifty to see a way to highlight specific portions of notes and to format them in a different direction to the rest of the text.

This could be useful for East Asian scripts; such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean, or for some Central Asian languages also (Mongolian e.g.). I know some text formatters allow this, and that typically it is a CSS feature, but was wondering if it was possible in the notes box. See the images below for examples

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/2X/5/5068fecd69e0860f31b9d8b3f32b7135cb0284fb.png)  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/2X/1/18b986b37edd0c4f179b49d781f7f5dcec446620.jpeg)

> **[Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_and_vertical_writing_in_East_Asian_scripts)**
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> Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically. Chinese characters, Korean hangul, and Japanese kana may be oriented along either axis, as they consist mainly of disconnected logographic or syllabic units, each occupying a square block of space, thus allowing for flexibility for which direction texts can be written, be it horizontally from left-to-right, horizontally from right-to-left, vertically from top-to-bottom, and even vertically from bottom-to-top.
> Traditionally, wr...

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**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/a-way-to-change-word-format-direction-left-to-right-right-to-left-top-to-bottom-bottom-to-top/6741/2 "2025-01-07T00:46:57Z")

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Feature requests can be discussed here, then filed in the Gramps-project’s [MantisBT issue tracker](https://gramps-project.org/bugs/my_view_page.php). You have to sign up for an account to file a request. (Yep, our systems are not integrated. Separate accounts for GitHub developer repository, Discourse forum, the wiki, the bug tracker, the maillist.)

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**Author:** ![ML8991](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@ML8991](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/ML8991)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/a-way-to-change-word-format-direction-left-to-right-right-to-left-top-to-bottom-bottom-to-top/6741/3 "2025-01-07T01:20:23Z")

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Feature request summarised on the below feature request. Refer to here for other image sources  
[https://gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=13560](https://gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=13560)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/1X/2ac1e712b7adf612e31ca08a55419f4cf37c0158.png) [@system](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/a-way-to-change-word-format-direction-left-to-right-right-to-left-top-to-bottom-bottom-to-top/6741/4 "2025-02-06T01:21:01Z")

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