Re: Boustrophedon and Chinese Re: A single font can display ANY alphabet, pictograph

to the best of my knowledge, most boustrephodon (to answer your
spelling question) systems just go back and forth, like an ox plowing
a field (the origin of the name), and usually exist in a language
without much formal literature, and therefore are irregular in their
starting position.  i don't know of any vertical-type boustrephodons,
but i'm sure they exist in some documents somewhere.
kit

On Oct 13, 2005, at 8:56 PM, tomhchappell wrote:
> My own first conlang (not yet suitable for public viewing) is going
> to have a boustrophedon (sp?) script beginning at the lower right
> corner of the page, proceeding upwards to the upper right corner,
> then moving leftwards one line, and proceeding downwards to the
> bottom of the page, then moving leftwards one more line, then
> proceeding upwards to the top of the page, ... etc., ... until
> finally the last line of the page is written (top-to-bottom if evenly
> many lines, bottom-to-top if oddly many lines) along the left edge of
> the page.

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