From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Nov 02 2008 - 15:51:32 CST
On 11/2/2008 8:09 AM, Peter Zilahy Ingerman, PhD wrote:
> 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.
I don't know about that, but I do know that many scripts have characters
that are symmetric in shape, and for which mirroring produces no visible
effect.
>
> But I may well be wrong.
>
> Peter
>
> Kent Karlsson wrote:
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