From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Boustrophedon Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:00:37 -0400 Message-ID: <874oqrkcl6.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <4ABBCE21.3080000@gmail.com> <87ocp0rrab.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253844471 4048 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2009 02:07:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:07:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Andreas Wagner To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 25 04:07:44 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 1Mr0Dn-0004Ov-D7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:07:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42961 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr0Dl-0007uE-Pq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:07:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr05R-0005KK-JX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:59:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr05N-0005IR-2W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:59:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38729 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr05M-0005IJ-Uq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:59:01 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:46664) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mr05M-0001H4-Io for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:59:00 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0094257E266; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:00:37 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87ocp0rrab.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:01:16 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:115601 Archived-At: 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... ;-)