Q: describing how one reads text

[Stephen Goranson]

boustrophedon
Quoting "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>:

> Is there a word to describe how one's eye moves when reading
> (Occidental) text -- horizontally along the line, then down one line
> and back to the starting edge?
>
> I have a very faint recollection of a word that applies to text where
> one went one line down but continued reading from the edge that was
> the end of the preceding line (that is, left to right, then right to
> left, etc.) -- but it's so faint that all I seem to remember is that
> it began with a "b".
>
> Joel
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