tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Feb 04 08:01:27 1995
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Re: Boustrophedon, Futhark
- From: "A.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Boustrophedon, Futhark
- Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 12:17:29 GMT
- Priority: normal
ghItlhpu' Daniele Alberto Galliano <[email protected]> boustrophedon
ghItlhtaHghachXXX:-
> I think that it is so comfortable to be read, that it was discarded in a
> little time: You see, it is easier to scan an ordered text than one which
> asks You to have two brain working each way (and two independent eyes too).
(1) `XXX' hereinabove should be a preposition suffix meaning "on the subject
of": please what should this be?
(2) With reading text written one way, there arises the problem of the brain
remembering where it was while the eyes are CR-LF'ing. This occurs e.g. in
controversy about children getting so used to comic speech balloons with
short text lines that they can't cope easily with books with long text lines.
Thus also, in many scientific articles the text is in 2 columns, to keep the
line shorter. Nowadays people read so much that remembering where you were
while CR-LF'ing is easy; but it may not have been to in pre-industrial days
when written material and chances to read it was scarce. So some people found
it easier to read boustrophedon because there at EOL the text is not broken
but merely folded back.