Hi Aaron, Rather incredibly, I had never heard of the word “boustrophedon” and this is the second reference in just under a week! The first time was when someone asked me (last week) whether there was a perfect rhyme for “anthropomorphic” — the only one I could find was “boustorphic” (which derives from the same root as boustrophedon).
I know about the frequency illusion bias (a.k.a. Baader–Meinhof phenomenon), but I honestly don’t think this is that. :) Cheers, Kieren. > On Feb 23, 2024, at 4:55 PM, Aaron Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just read a side note on Wikipedia about a supposed "boustrophedon" notation. > The citation does not link to the image in question, which is an unfortunate > oversight. I was curious whether this approach applied only to Rousseau's > numeric notation or if it was intended to work with standard notation. I > suspect his numeric notation is more vulnerable to misreading as it would be > harder to jump from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. > > It seems like LilyPond could theoretically support this by alternately > reflecting every other system, assuming the intention is to mirror image all > symbols in the right-to-left systems. > > Does anyone have more details about this?
