I think it would be cleaner to use overrides in cases like this. Or simply higher-level markup: it may be reasonable to define that directionality more complex than boustrophedon is beyond "plain text."Elaine Keown Tucson
Dear Kenneth Whistler:
down, but even for this, the edge cases result in
irreconcilable arguments: is Etruscan left-to-right
or right-to-left or both?
A lot of the really early Greek (on the true edge between Phoenician and Greek) seems to be tetradirectional.....or even pentadirectional.
Are you opposed in principle to having small encoded blocks which have multiple potential directionalities?
Different blocks would probably be a Bad Thing, since then the same word written in different directions would no longer be "the same word."
~mark
