From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Oct 31 2008 - 13:43:13 CST
On 31 Oct 2008, at 19:05, Hosszu Gabor wrote:
> The origin of the boustrophedon directionality was the writing onto
> sticks
> in the ancient times just similarly to the Rovas stick calendar.
Yes, and boustrophedon on a three-dimensional object is not the same
as boustrophedon text directionality, I am sure.
Boustrophedon in Greek means a flat field for text where the first
line goes one direction, the second goes the other, and so on repeating.
The same cannot be said about a three-dimensional stick. It is not a
field of text. It's got two (or more) sides and it's meant to be
turned over in the hand. That is not ox-plowing.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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