* Boustrophedon @ 2009-09-24 19:53 Andreas Wagner 2009-09-24 21:01 ` Boustrophedon Juri Linkov 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Andreas Wagner @ 2009-09-24 19:53 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-devel Dear Emacs Devs, I am interested in editing text in boustrophedon [writing like an ox turns in the field] as it is more comfortable/efficient to read. In boustrophedon the first line is left to right, the characters and text on the next line are right to left. These alternate reducing eye movement. There are some good points on boustrophedon typesetting here: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/aleph/2004-March/000094.html My question is, would it be good to have generic support for this? - Andreas Wagner ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Boustrophedon 2009-09-24 19:53 Boustrophedon Andreas Wagner @ 2009-09-24 21:01 ` Juri Linkov 2009-09-25 2:00 ` Boustrophedon Chong Yidong 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Juri Linkov @ 2009-09-24 21:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Andreas Wagner; +Cc: emacs-devel > In boustrophedon the first line is left to right, the characters and text > on the next line are right to left. These alternate reducing eye movement. This would be easy to do with the emacs-bidi implementation just alternating the text direction and font on each row. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Boustrophedon 2009-09-24 21:01 ` Boustrophedon Juri Linkov @ 2009-09-25 2:00 ` Chong Yidong 2009-09-25 8:01 ` Boustrophedon David Kastrup 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Chong Yidong @ 2009-09-25 2:00 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Juri Linkov; +Cc: emacs-devel, Andreas Wagner Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes: >> In boustrophedon the first line is left to right, the characters and text >> on the next line are right to left. These alternate reducing eye movement. > > This would be easy to do with the emacs-bidi implementation > just alternating the text direction and font on each row. I'm not sure "easy" is a word I would use for this... ;-) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Boustrophedon 2009-09-25 2:00 ` Boustrophedon Chong Yidong @ 2009-09-25 8:01 ` David Kastrup 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: David Kastrup @ 2009-09-25 8:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-devel Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes: > Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes: > >>> In boustrophedon the first line is left to right, the characters and text >>> on the next line are right to left. These alternate reducing eye movement. >> >> This would be easy to do with the emacs-bidi implementation >> just alternating the text direction and font on each row. > > I'm not sure "easy" is a word I would use for this... ;-) Feynman complained about mathematicians using "trivial" equivalently to "provable". -- David Kastrup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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