縦たて中ちゅう横よこ

noun

horizontal-in-vertical text setting

A typographic feature in Japanese vertical writing where a short run of horizontal characters (often two digits or a few Latin letters) is set within a single vertical column, keeping the characters upright rather than rotated.

• 縦たて書がきの文ぶん中ちゅうで「10月がつ」のように数すう字じを横よこに並ならべるのが縦たて中ちゅう横よこです。

  In vertical writing, setting digits side by side as in '10月' is tate-chū-yoko.

• この組くみ版はんソフトは縦たて中ちゅう横よこの設せっ定ていが簡かん単たんにできます。

  This typesetting software makes it easy to configure horizontal-in-vertical text.