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There's a reason for reading text in columns – it's just easier! Everything from newspapers to books do it. And it's quite interesting to try layout a text wi
by algesten 9y ago
There's a reason for reading text in columns – it's just easier!
Everything from newspapers to books do it.
And it's quite interesting to try layout a text width wise. Just paste some long text into an html-page or text editor and then go full screen width. I find it almost impossible to keep track of where I'm looking. I'm much slower reading like that.
- retox 9y agoI wrote a script a long time ago that turned a chunk of text into a pseudo Babylonian text. At the end of the line the letters of each word reversed so your eyes could scan back and forth to reduce eye strain and losing place. I thought it was quite readable and beneficial but others didn't.
- dr_zoidberg 9y agoThis needs further explanation, ideally a picture showing the effect. I don't really think I've understood what your script did.
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- jankins 9y agoI believe he means it would rewrite Line one Line two As: Line one owt eniL To save your eyes the travel distance to the line origin in order to read the next line.
- retox 9y agoYes, mostly like this. Not sure why I thought it had anything to do with Babylon... My script had two modes, the one above and a different type which I preferred. The first line was as normal reversed was second the then but only the order of the the of letters the not words, words.
- dr_zoidberg 9y agoThanks, now I did get it. Guess for me it was easier seeing it than reading a description!
- zem 9y agothe technical term is "boustrophedon" (etymologically "in the manner of an ox ploughing a field"), google it up for some nice examples
- amenod 9y agoDo you have a demo / image somewhere? Sounds interesting...
- retox 9y agoSee above in this thread if you didn't already.