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  2. Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts - Wikipedia

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    Today, the left-to-right direction is dominant in all three languages for horizontal writing: this is due partly to the influence of English and other Western languages to make it easier to read when the two languages are found together—for example, on airport signs at a train station—and partly to the increased use of computerized ...

  3. Typographic alignment - Wikipedia

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    In English and most European languages where words are read left-to-right, text is usually aligned "flush left", [1] meaning that the text of a paragraph is aligned on the left-hand side with the right-hand side ragged. This is the default style of text alignment on the World Wide Web for left-to-right text. [2] Quotations are often indented ...

  4. Writing system - Wikipedia

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    When those with signed languages as their first language read writing associated with a spoken language, this functions as literacy in a second, acquired language. [ b ] [ 10 ] A single language (e.g. Hindustani ) can be written using multiple writing systems, and a writing system can also represent multiple languages.

  5. Recto and verso - Wikipedia

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    The reading order of each folio remains first verso, then recto, regardless of writing direction. The terms are carried over into printing ; recto-verso [ 4 ] is the norm for printed books but was an important advantage of the printing press over the much older Asian woodblock printing method, which printed by rubbing from behind the page being ...

  6. Boustrophedon - Wikipedia

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    When reading one line, the lines above and below it appear upside down. However, the writing continues onto the second side of the tablet at the point where it finishes off the first, so if the first side has an odd number of lines, the second will start at the upper left-hand corner, and the direction of writing shifts to top to bottom. Larger ...

  7. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Each edition has a sheet of proofreader's marks that appears to be the same apart from the language used to describe the marks. The section cautions that "it should be realised that the typesetter may not understand the language in which the text is written". English; French; German; Italian; etc.

  8. Right-to-left script - Wikipedia

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    A woman writing in Persian in right-to-left direction, with a notebook computer displaying right-to-left text. Right-to-left, top-to-bottom text is supported in common computer software. [1] Often, this support must be explicitly enabled. Right-to-left text can be mixed with left-to-right text in bi-directional text.

  9. Branching (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, branching refers to the shape of the parse trees that represent the structure of sentences. [1] Assuming that the language is being written or transcribed from left to right, parse trees that grow down and to the right are right-branching, and parse trees that grow down and to the left are left-branching.