Boustrophedon

Boustrophedon

[Andreas Wagner]

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

Re: Boustrophedon

[Juri Linkov]

> 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/

Re: Boustrophedon

[Chong Yidong]

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... ;-)

Re: Boustrophedon

[David Kastrup]

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