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Old 05-21-2011, 05:22 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by violagirl View Post
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?
Neither the ePub nor the Mobipocket format currently support "top to bottom" text. That's why Japanese, Chinese, etc, are conventionally written left-to-right, top-to-bottom, on readers.
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