From: Peter Zilahy Ingerman, PhD (pzi@ingerman.org)
Date: Sun Nov 02 2008 - 10:09:50 CST
Perhaps I'm being confused ... it's been a long time ... but I seem to
recall that there are, actually, two types of boustrophedon.
If memory serve me correctly, the older type mirrored the characters on
the right-to-left line, but the newer type didn't, although the line
was, nonetheless, written from right to left.
But I may well be wrong.
Peter
Kent Karlsson wrote:
>Szabolcs Szelp wrote:
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>>Not considering bustrophaedon,
>>even in the described standard behaviour of OH of having the
>>characters mirrored when overriden LTR, I believe it is problematic
>>that one has to replace the punctuation characters.
>>
>>Usually one would think of the LTR and RTL in OH as the same text with
>>the same information, ie. the same string of characteres, only
>>displayed differently (i.e. other text-flow direction, and mirrored).
>>So why do we have to use other characters?
>>
>>
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>Bidi (in the Unicode sense) and bustrophedon (while in a quite different
>way "bidirectional") are unrelated and should not be conflated in any way.
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>>The passage in the current proposal authored by Michael and me
>>contains the passage above cited by Karl, it was included on grounds
>>of verbal communication of Michael about the preference "by the
>>committee".
>>
>>
>>However, I do believe that it should be open for discussion.
>>
>>Karl suggested (privately) having the punctuation included in the OH
>>block, alongside with the Bidi_Mirrored=Yes property.
>>
>>
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>Naa. Bidi_Mirrored is for handling Arabic, Hebrew and similar scripts.
>It's NOT for handling bustrophedon, which mirrors *all* glyphs (once)
>on every second line. Bidi override controls never mirror characters
>which have Bidi_Mirrored=FALSE. Also the bidi overrides do not go well
>together with bustrophedon and automatic line breaking. Bustrophedon
>is simply a quite different beast from Arabic/Hebrew/etc. Bustrophedon
>should simply graphically mirror the entier line, every second line.
>
> /kent k
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