BSD Ports

textproc/boust 0.161p6 OpenBSD

boustrophedon text reader

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
Stuart Cassoff <[email protected]>
Last update
Commit
40b74e4e56
Categories
textproc, x11/tk, lang/tcl

Description

Boustrophedon is a reading-/writing-style that alternates direction every line. It was originally created by the ancient Greeks. Once one gets good at reading the 'backwards' text, reading (and writing) can go much faster, as the eye (or hand) does not have to whip back to the margin when the end of a line is reached. One simply goes down a line and continues in the opposite direction.

In the case of a paragraph ending, the next paragraph should retain the horizontal position, and (depending on which the text is closest to: the center of the screen or the margin) continues in the same direction, or continue in the opposite direction.

This program formats the text-files to be read in this manner.

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add boust

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/textproc/boust && make install

Dependencies

Run dependencies 2

No port depends on this one.

Commit history 1

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40b74e4e56 stu MODTK_VERSION=8.6