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What is a right-to-left script?
What is a right-to-LEFT MARK (RLM)?
Why is left-to-right writing better than right-handed writing?
In a right-to-left, top-to-bottom script (commonly shortened to right to left or abbreviated RTL, RL-TB or R2L ), writing starts from the right of the page and continues to the left, proceeding from top to bottom for new lines. Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian are the most widespread RTL writing systems in modern times.
- Bidirectional text
A bidirectional text contains two text directionalities,...
- Category:Right-to-left writing systems
Right-to-left writing systems. Right-to-left writing...
- Right-to-left mark
The right-to-left mark (RLM) is a non-printing character...
- Bidirectional text
Left-to-right writing has the advantage that, since most people are right-handed, the hand does not interfere with the just-written text—which might not yet have dried—since the hand is on the right side of the pen. Right-to-left writing, by contrast, may have been advantageous back when writing was done with hammer and chisel; the scribe ...
Scripts have a writing direction, and so languages written in a particular script, will be written with the direction of that script. Languages can be written in more than one script. For example, Azeri can be written in any of the Latin, Cyrillic, or Arabic scripts. When written in Latin or Cyrillic scripts, Azeri is written left-to-right (LTR).
Boustrophedon. An example, in English, of boustrophedon as used in inscriptions in ancient Greece (Lines 2 and 4 read right-to-left.) Boustrophedon ( / ˌbuːstrəˈfiːdən / [1]) is a style of writing in which alternate lines of writing are reversed, with letters also written in reverse, mirror-style.
