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Post number 12667

Su — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:38:41 -0800

Boustrophedon reader. Be the first in your IP block. Forget about text-reversing widgets.
You'll need to get your hands on a reversed font. I only know of one, Helvetica Flip. If anybody finds another, nicer one, please let me know. [Link via SweetCode]

By: Mapes

Mapes — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:50:38 -0800

As the ox plows.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:55:36 -0800

Still wrestling with it, Su, but sure I'm onto something good. Thanks! Meanwhile, good to know that [a] couple of teachers expressed interest in converting boust into a cross-platform word processor. Means there's still hope, right?

By: dlewis

dlewis — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:08:53 -0800

My eyes hurt. A port to Java might be interesting. If I remember rightly, the Java 2D interface provides some support for formatting bi-directional text and doing transforms on arbitrary fonts (ie flipping).

By: rodii

rodii — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:17:16 -0800

Once again, I mourn the smeg.com backwards script. This is what it did to the Sacramento Bee.

By: tilt

tilt — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:35:07 -0800

teach me to not research before i post... Leonardo DaVinci wrote his notes so they could only be read in a mirror, while i used to be able to hand write it correctly even the links i've seen do not have the correct type to produce his effect but i can't get to Su's...
but then with i'm not done researching... Note to Administrator: Please "hope me" with this image, I know my server cannot handle it!!!

By: delmoi

delmoi — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:36:49 -0800

You need a reversed font? Thats just sloppy programming. You could render the offscreen and draw it as a reversed bitmap. I think I might write a java port tonight for the hell of it. I should be studying, though...