On Feb 9, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: > of course, a reversal > of original art in the engraving process was common comfortably > into the > 19th c.
And well into the 20th, and for all I know, the 21st. It's always been a rule of newpaper layout that people in pictures shouldn't look off the page, so at least in my college journalism days, it was common to "flop" pictures. Every so often, someone in the production process who doesn't know better will flop a picture that shouldn't be flopped, and thus mislead the reader into thinking traffic is going the wrong way or a violinist is bowing with his left hand. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
