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violagirl · 05-17-2011, 12:06 AM

What about vertical fonts (and possibly furigana)? Most Japanese novels tend to be written vertically, from right to left, like this: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JCITaa-i0-...0/P1000658.JPG

Would a Sony eReader support this? My other concern is that most Japanese ebooks are in the XMDF format (with a zbf extension). I looked on the eReader matrix wiki and couldn't find this format listed as supported by any of them.... does anyone know anything about this format at all/what supports it?

05-17-2011, 12:06 AM	#21
violagirl Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 50 Join Date: May 2011 Device: none	What about vertical fonts (and possibly furigana)? Most Japanese novels tend to be written vertically, from right to left, like this: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JCITaa-i0-...0/P1000658.JPG Would a Sony eReader support this? My other concern is that most Japanese ebooks are in the XMDF format (with a zbf extension). I looked on the eReader matrix wiki and couldn't find this format listed as supported by any of them.... does anyone know anything about this format at all/what supports it?