Book People Archive

Re: slipper point mystery



lars said:
>    Without knowing, I guess modern Hebrew PDF files 
>    start at the uppermost and scroll downwards even if 
>    pages would flip right to left in a printed book.

maybe.   or maybe not.

you could also have the .pdf open to the "last" page,
which would be the first page in a right-to-left form 
of writing, and then navigate to subsequent pages by
pressing cursor-left.

i'm not sure how the page-up and page-down keys
_should_ map to a book that was arranged this way.
it's an interesting thing to think about, somewhat akin
to knowledge that "north" is not _really_ "up" in space,
just because that's the way we always make our maps...


>    Nothing stops anybody from writing a PDF viewer
>    that flips pages sideways like a book, but I haven't 
>    seen one that works like that.

the zinio reader is very slick.
>    http://www.zinio.com/

-bowerbird