Re: Question about the directionality of "Old Hungarian" (document N3531)

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Nov 02 2008 - 15:51:32 CST

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    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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