Vertical Text Rendering Plug-in for GIMP2

Index

• Features
• Requirements
• How to install
• Details
  • Basic Settings
  • Mixed Font
  • Ruby
  • Horizontal line in vertical line
  • Dot
  • Tool
  • Preset
  • Font Directory
  • Buttons
  • Other
  • Commands
    • Ruby commands
    • Yoko command
    • Dot commands
    • Scale command
    • Font command
    • Color command
  • Batch Creation
• Copyright

Features

This plugin renders vertical writing characters. Make a layer of vertically writing letters. In addition to simply arranging letters vertically, you can use Japanese-specific typographic processing such as ruby, horizontal line in vertical line (called tate-chu-yoko), dot mark for emphasizing, combining voice sound marks, mixed font, unicode ivs, etc. Also, since it interpret fonts ourselves, it can output surrogate pairs and IVS characters even if the OS does not support them.

Requirements

• Gimp 2.4
• Freetype2
• GLib 2.14

How to install

Microsoft Window

Unix/Linux

Apple OS X

How to use

Basic Settings

Font

Select Fonts

Font Size

Select font size and units.

text dir

Select text direction. vertical or horizontal.

Line Align

Select Line alignment.Top, Center, Bottom, Both.

Yakumono

Yakumono means Japanese punctuation mark. Select yakumono spacing. BetaGumiDoes not spacing. It use advance of font.
YakuTsumeyakumono that has EM square size makes half size advance.
JISX4051yakumono are treated as defined by JISX4051.

Line Pitch

Pitch of lines.

Tracking

Pitch of chars.

Kerning

Enable kerning.

Antialias

Enable antialias.

Edging

Draw font edge used background color.

Mixed Font

Allow to use another font according to char class.

Ruby

Enable Ruby Transform

If ruby-string is longer than parent-string, transform ruby-string.

Ruby Max Transform Rate

max transfrom rate.

Horizontal line in vertical line

Auto Yoko

Sequence of Ascii number and ! and ? are rotated 90 digree in vertical text direction automatically

Auto Yoko Digits

sequence max digits of tate-chu-yoko.

Dot

Ignore Yakumono

Does not put dot on punctuation marks

Align dot

Align dots if glyph size is not same.

Tool

• Function to directly insert UNICODE for use in inputting variant character selectors and surrogate pair characters.
• Function to select and insert a font name, since it is troublesome to write a font name.

Preset

Load

Restore from preset.

Save

Save current parameter to preset.

Delete

Remove preset from preset list.

Update List

Update preset list.

Font Directory

Buttons

Modify

If selected layer is created by tategaki plugin, enter modify mode and you can change parameters. Press Apply button to save it again.

Apply

Apply changed paramter to layer and exit modify mode.

Cancel

exit modify mode

Create

create new tategaki plugin layer.

Close

Close dialog window.

Other

Hide...

Hide tabs of parameters

Topmost

Prevent the dialog from hiding behind.

Commands

By inserting a command in a sentence, you can add special effects. The basic syntax of the command is [command-name arg1 arg2 ...] , enclosing the command name and arguments, separated by a space. Argument characters can not contain spaces. If it contains spaces, escape whitespace with \ or enclose the string with "".

Ruby commands

[ruby parent-string ruby-string]

parent-string

string of base(parent).

ruby-string

string of ruby.

[ruby 京都 きようと]

Yoko command

[yoko string]
[yoko string trans-rate]
[yoko string trans-rate alignment]

string

string for horizontal

trans-rate

0(default) makes the object to EM square. If 1.0 then not compressed.

alignment

t(top), c(center), b(bottom)

[yoko km]
[yoko !!!!! 1]
[yoko '90 1 bottom]

Dot commands

[dot string]
[goma string]

string

string to dot.

[dot 猛犬注意]
[goma 猛猫注意]

Scale command

[scale string trans-rateA]
[scale string trans-rateA trans-rateB]

string

string to scale.

trans-rateA

if text-dir is vertical then x, when horizontal then y. 1.0 has no scaling. 0.5 is half size.

trans-rateB

if text-dir is vertical then y, when horizontal then x.

[scale 巨大文字 2]
[scale 長い文字 0.5 1]

Bold command

[bold string]
[bold string strength]

string

string to embold.

strength

Embold string. default is 4.0. 0.0 is not embolded. Minus value makes string slim.

[bold 普通の太字]
[bold 細字 -3.0]

Font command

[font string font-namae]

string

string to change a font

font-name

The font name, a japanese, english or postscript name enabled. It is required to escape white space by \.

[font Japanese-Name IPA明朝]
[font English-Name MS\ Gothic]
[font Postscript-Name HiraMinProN-W3]

Color command

[color string color-name]

string

string to change a color

color-name

Enable to use #FFFFFF style, hsv(D,N%,N%) style, hsl(D,N%,N%) style, CSS3 Color Names, JIS Color Names and etc. If color name contains white space, it requires quote with "" or escape by \. See also colors.html.

[color Eagle #FF0000]
[color Shark blue]
[color Panther 黄]
[color HSV-Blue "hsv(240, 100%, 100%)"]
[color HSL-Blue "hsl(240, 100%,  50%)"]

Batch Creation