From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Boustrophedon Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:01:09 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <877hvno3lm.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <4ABBCE21.3080000@gmail.com> <87ocp0rrab.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <874oqrkcl6.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253865717 16995 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2009 08:01:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:01:57 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 25 10:01:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mr5kU-0004B2-2B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:01:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45515 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr5kT-0005Ae-Kd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:01:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr5kN-0005AU-JL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:01:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr5kH-0005AD-7G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:01:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52262 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr5kH-0005A6-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:31494) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mr5kF-0002fj-QL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:01:35 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mr5kE-0000LA-Cd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mr5kC-00046C-DL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:01:32 +0200 Original-Received: from p5b2c25b5.dip.t-dialin.net ([91.44.37.181]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:01:32 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p5b2c25b5.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:01:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5b2c25b5.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Uji/sgmwJQfNpj7G73RUdwpumNM= X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:115603 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > Juri Linkov 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