boust

boustrophedon text reader

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  1. Package version
    boust-0.161p4
  2. Maintainer
    The OpenBSD ports mailing-list

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.

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Running ${PKGSTEM} on OpenBSD
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------

The X11 fonts for ${PKGSTEM} have been installed to

${FONTDIR}

You must add them to your X11 font paths with the
following command:

xset +fp ${FONTDIR}

To enable this permanently when the X11 server is
started, add

FontPath "${FONTDIR}"

in the "Files" section of your xorg.conf file.