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Subject:Re: WHAT MOVES ON SCREEN? From:Andreas Ramos <andreas -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 11 Jul 1994 12:02:22 -0700
> I'll agree that Hollywood's depictions are inaccurate. However, Greeks and
> Egyptians weren't the only players on the scrolling scene. Ancient
> Chinese texts were often on scrolls (made up of bamboo strips held together
> with string, like bamboo blinds). These scrolls were continuous, and not
> in page-units. Each twist of the wrist produced a new line of text (one
> per bamboo strip). Since Chinese characters read from top to bottom, the
> scroll was unwound horizontally; but I think our vertical scroll-bars are
> a legitimate transformation, for horizontally-read text.
Thanks for the info re: Chinese scrolls. In dinner conversation last
night, I found out that Torah, which was on scrolls, was also read
horizontally. My! the things we learn!
