Re: Scripts

boustrophedon ? the greeks did it on early inscriptions. more to the
point they reversed the letter shapes as well . . .

-----Original Message-----
From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU] On
Behalf Of Jake X
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 1:51 AM
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Subject: Re: Scripts


>On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 00:17:50 -0700 Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
>writes:
> > CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> > I Never thought so, mostly because i hadn't learned that scripts
> > could go right to left, until i learned about Hebrew and Arabic (and
> > by then i had
> > already learned how Devanagari goes).
IIRC, Braille is both, depending on line, but I think left-right first.
In other words, so that the blind need not find the beginning of the
next line, the line below begins just under where the line above ended
and runs the opposite direction. Is that not correct? Anyhow, I like
that way best. Oh, that and bottom to top, just to be different. Does
anyone know of conscripts like that. Does anyone want to incorporate
that idea in their script?

Jake


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