* Boustrophedon
@ 2009-09-24 19:53 Andreas Wagner
2009-09-24 21:01 ` Boustrophedon Juri Linkov
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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
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* 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
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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/
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* 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
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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... ;-)
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* Re: Boustrophedon
2009-09-25 2:00 ` Boustrophedon Chong Yidong
@ 2009-09-25 8:01 ` David Kastrup
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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
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