Hmmm... I should not have thoughtlessly jumped into the
discussion w/o knowing more about the thread, including
*why* this information is perceived to be important on the
Unicode list. If someone needs to know the details,
for some serious research purpose, they should consult with
specialists wh
At 08:13 PM 12/21/2000 -0800, Robin Cover wrote:
>See Naveh and others on proto-Canaanite writing - "vertical
>boustrophedon" is a common locution. Vertical alphabetic
>apparently dropped out of use by about 1100 BCE.
To clarify, is Naveh talking about vertical text -- i.e. glyphs stacked one
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See Naveh and others on proto-Canaanite writing - "vertical
boustrophedon" is a common locution. Vertical alphabetic
apparently dropped out of use by about 1100 BCE.
- Robin Cover
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Michael Everson wrote:
> Ar 13:0
Ar 13:02 -0800 2000-12-20, scríobh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>I have never heard of
>boustrophedon used for vertical text.
Neither have I.
ME
On Wednesday, December 20, 2000, at 01:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 12/20/2000 02:26:24 PM Elaine Keown wrote:
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>> Literally 'boustrophedon' refers to how an ox plows a field.
>
> And I think that has always been understood in the context of writing to
> mean with successive lines
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On 12/20/2000 02:26:24 PM Elaine Keown wrote:
>Literally 'boustrophedon' refers to how an ox plows a field.
And I think that has always been understood in the context of writing to
mean with successive lines running in alternate directions (regardless of
the direction in which lines follow one
Elain wrote:
> Chinese and Japanese newspapers are still mostly written in a vertical,
> frequently right-to-left, boustrophedon.
No, not exactly. They don't go "as the ox plows", and it is entirely
improper to utilize the term "boustrophedon" to refer to them. They are
written in columns,
Hello,
I studied Chinese in "horizontal, left to right mode" in Boston, but my impression is
that Chinese and Japanese newspapers are still mostly written in a vertical,
frequently right-to-left, boustrophedon. I know nothing whatsoever about Korean.
But, of course, I am not using the word
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