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Especially for long blocks of text or becomes easy to go to the wrong line when scanning back to the left side of the page. There exist decades of empirical re
by sdenton4 4y ago
Especially for long blocks of text or becomes easy to go to the wrong line when scanning back to the left side of the page.
There exist decades of empirical research on this topic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length
- graftak 4y agoI can’t think of a source for this so take it as you wish but at some point in history it was attempted to mitigate this by changing the reading direction every other sentence so you’d be able to read in a continuous stream. It failed for obvious reasons.
- sdenton4 4y agoAncient-enough greek includes examples of left-to-right, right-to-left, and alternating line orientation, and may be what you're thinking of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon