Nicholas Bodley scripsit:

> This brings to mind another question. I'm fairly sure that Chinese is
> occasionally written RtoL; however, when, and for what reasons?

That's a matter of dispute. Chinese headlines, e.g., look like RTL, but
can also be seen as TTB in columns of depth 1.

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