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Boustrophedon or Rongorongo?

From: Panthera Altaica <>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 06:05:09 -0800 (PST)

What do you think is a the best method of alternating line direction? 
Rongorongo(I find rotating the glyph 180) is easer to read thou that
may be just becouse I've had practise at it.  Boustrophedon(mirroring
the glyph) seems much harder than I remember learning Rongorongo.  The
advantages a see for Rogorongo a is easer to learn, You an turn a book
around after reading each page(Reading the whole upside down and you
can have trouble reading right side up text.) Boustrophedon has a down
direction(not so useful on a computer screen when know witch side is
the bottom but could help with print outs). I'm leaning towards
Rongorongo with full word wrapping for when space isn't a premium and
character wrapping with margins to the left and right to show wrap
status of the lines. 

http://www.furnation.com/draltaica/pic/ban/BoustRongo.png is an image I
made showing the two each with wrapping on word, wrapping on character
with wrap character at end and wrapping on character with wrap
character along one edge.

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Dr. Panthera Tigris Altaica

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