[OS X TeX] Boustrophedon typesetting?

Steffen Wolfrum osxtex at st.estfiles.de
Thu Mar 24 15:00:23 CET 2005


Hi Linda,

Boustrophedon typesetting (on Mac OSX) can probably best be achieved 
with XeTeX.

So either subscribe to XeTeX mailing list 
(http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex) or send your request again to 
Jonathan Kew (XeTeX): jonathan_kew at sil.org


Hope this helps,

Steffen



Linda Lanz <lindalanz at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
>  I'm new to the list, but I was wondering if anyone knows of a package
>  that can do boustrophedon typesetting? (That's where you go
>  left-to-right on one line, then right-to-left on the next, and so
>  forth. Sometimes it involves rotating the characters, other times
>  not.)
>
>  It's not urgent, but it is something I'd like to be able to do to
>  demonstrate various writing systems to students.
>
>  Thanks!
>
>  -Linda Lanz
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