From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Boustrophedon
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:01:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hvno3lm.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874oqrkcl6.fsf@cyd.mit.edu
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-25 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-24 19:53 Boustrophedon Andreas Wagner
2009-09-24 21:01 ` Boustrophedon Juri Linkov
2009-09-25 2:00 ` Boustrophedon Chong Yidong
2009-09-25 8:01 ` David Kastrup [this message]
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