Nagasaka

YES please this would be amazing! My business is literally waiting for this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Almost everything I make needs this! Just moved from Xara designer because of the amazing 3 sets of programs, designer, photo and publisher.... but no Tategaki. Rubi text would also be great. 

In Japanese they have a style of writing down the page. (Chinese also has it)
I have looked everywhere how to do it, forums and it is not possible in Affinity. ( I know I can create a hundred thin text boxes and do it that way but that does not work. I am not going to create a textbook like that. This would be a super handy function to have in an update. If selling in Japan and wanting the mass market to buy, this would be a must. 
 
Also having What they call RUBI text, would be great. This is the ability to have smaller character that tell the reader what the kanji mean just above or to the right of the character. Also a super important feature for Japan. 
I have attached two examples of that they look like. 
 

I agree, this is one of the first features I went to use but could not. Trying to make several books for my business, will need to look around at what can be done

Please add vertical text feature!
 
 

I noticed the absence of a Vertical Type feature today when I tested my *.ai files in Affinity Designer.  All the Japanese I created using Illustrator's Vertical Type Tool (tategaki) is changed to horizontal text when the file is opened in AD.
 
Please add a Vertical Type Tool akin to the one in Illustrator.  Such is not really needed so much for English, but for Japanese and Chinese, it's a must have feature.

Hi 2 all @ Affinity *first post*
 
Really liking Designer and amazed at the speed of development/customer interaction - all good stuff!
 
Anyway... been looking at the type options; text-on-a-path is great, is there a way for vertical type? i.e. draw a vertical path down the page and have the text characters align on the path but one under the other and still be type.
Horizontal paths can be rotated to vertical but the characters are (sensibly) still aligned to the baseline path.
I bet I have just not seen the "rotate text" button!
 
Sim2.

Ah, good to hear, thanks.
 
I have been exploring the text options as, perhaps, these modules within Designer may well be ported over to the basis of text functions in the page layout version which, of the three programmes, is my "natural" home. Can't wait for the beta of that programme to arrive!

Please put "vertical text" tag to the post

I noticed the absence of a Vertical Type feature today when I tested my *.ai files in Affinity Designer.  All the Japanese I created using Illustrator's Vertical Type Tool (tategaki) is changed to horizontal text when the file is opened in AD.
 
Please add a Vertical Type Tool akin to the one in Illustrator.  Such is not really needed so much for English, but for Japanese and Chinese, it's a must have feature.

No vertical text yet. It's something we have planned though.

I'm just trying out the demo version of Affinity Designer and I have to say it looks very impressive!
 
However, it would be really great if you could include Japanese typography features such as mojikumi (文字組み) and kinsoku shori (禁則処理).
 

 
Edit: I just noticed that vertical writing (tategaki) is also missing from Affinity designer. This is really quite important for Japanese.