help making lines vertical

[mak_kawa]

Honestly, I think Jeff's idea is the best and universal solution so far, as current Rainmeter doesn't support "vertical writing" font of Japanese version of Windows.

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[mak_kawa]

Back to RGBisLyf's primary question...It is better(best?) to use Jeff's idea.

How do you get the string "ジャン・カルロ"? Is this fixed or dynamically changing?
If fixed, add a measure to replace original string to "pseudo-vertical" string.

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[MeasureReplace]
Measure=String
String="ジャン・カルロ"
RegExpSubstitute=1
Substitute="(.)":"\0#CRLF#"

[MeterString]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureReplace
MeterStyle=QuoteStyle
Text=%1

When the string is changing as an output from some measure.

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[SomeMeasure]
Measure=(some)
......
RegExpSubstitute=1
Substitute="(.)":"\0#CRLF#"

[MeterString]
Meter=String
MeasureName=SomeMeasure
MeterStyle=QuoteStyle
Text=%1

As I didn't actually try (= paper coding), some mistake is possible. If so, sorry.
Anyway, posting your working skin code here is certainly helpful to improve.

[balala]

As far as I see from the posted images / screenshots, I'd add one more option to the String meter, a StringAlign=Center, to get the center of the letters (symbols - whatever do you name those) aligned one beneath the other. If add this, you also have to increase a little bit the X value, otherwise the left half of the letters go outside to left of the skin.
For instance on Jeff's code, I'd replace the [TheStringMeter] meter with something like this:

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[TheStringMeter]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureString
X=15
FontFace=メイリオ
FontSize=12
StringAlign=Center

[mak_kawa]

Nice point-out...