suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, grendl löfkvist <grendl_lofkvist@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all:
> >
> > Are there any writing systems for the blind (Braille, etc.) that
> are or were written
> > boustrophedonically (i.e. right to left to right, etc.)?
>
> The moon code was developed by Dr William Moon of Brighton in 1847.
> Since it has similarities to ordinary print characters, it is easier
> to learn by blind persons who previously read visually. However it
> has the disadvantage that it takes about 80 times the volume of the
> print version. Also, the high cost of production has meant that very
> few books are printed in this medium. The number of moon readers has
> dwindled to about 400, most of whom are in the UK.
>
> Up to recently moon was produced boustrophedon (which literally
> means turning as oxen in plowing) which meant that the user did not
> have the problem of backtracking from the end of one line to the
> beginning of the next. This type of presentation is also called
> serpentine or meander; it was used by the Greeks in ordinary writing
> at about 0 AD. The disadvantage was the perceptual problem of
> reading alternate lines in reverse.

There was no 0 AD (or BC), and a handful of the earliest Greek
inscriptions are boustrophedon. There is no "ordinary writing" in Greek
that is boustrophedon.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...