Re: boustrophedon

From: Martin J. Dürst (mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch)
Date: Wed Nov 05 1997 - 11:29:41 EST


On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Mark Leisher wrote:

> Boustrophedon is not implicit in the codepoint. That would require the
> addition of a new bidi property 'B'. Don't know if that is going to
> happen. Formatting each line with directionality in advance is not
> useful except for GUI activities.

GUIs usually are not based on preformatted text. I'd say it's rather
for old text-only interfaces where this is relevant.

Regards, Martin.



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