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boustrophedon – A LaTeX package for boustrophedon typography
This package typesets text in boustrophedon style, alternating the writing direction on each line.
Have you ever wondered why most Western languages are
written left-to-right, while many Middle Eastern languages
are written right-to-left?
Both conventions may seem arbitrary today – but this was
not always the case.
In one of the earliest fully developed alphabets, the
Archaic Greek alphabet (from alpha and beta,
hence
alphabet
), writing was often performed
boustrophedon, meaning as the ox turns in
ploughing.
Text was written left-to-right on one line, then
right-to-left on the next, with both the direction of
the text and the letterforms themselves mirrored
accordingly.
This method creates a continuous flow of reading, as the reader does not need to jump back to the start of each new line, but instead follows the text in a natural back-and-forth motion. Reading takes some getting used to, but after a while it becomes surprisingly natural.
| Package | boustrophedon |
| Version | 1.1.0 |
| Copyright | 2026 Aris Chatzichristos, PhD |
| Maintainer | Aris Chatzichristos |
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