Panthera Altaica wrote: > 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. I just wanted to point out, that after all the character-wrapping, the net gain was only moving one word up. 8 lines became 7 lines. The high readability of the word-wrapped examples is probably worth the ~15% real-estate loss. On screens with wider rows (20 chars is small... cell phone?) the savings from char-wrapping would be even smaller. Jason -- ~`~`^~'~^`~^~`~^`~'~`^`~'^`~`^` tear here ~^'`~^`~^~`'^~`~'^`~^~'^~`'~`'~ Jason Cohen mailto:Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs Distributed Processing Lab 1 Federal Street, A&E-3W, Camden, NJ 08102 p:856.338.3915 f:856.338.4144 -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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