Re: Mixed L2R and R2L paragraphs and horizontal scroll

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bidi,gmane.emacs.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:02:59 +0000
> From: David De La Harpe Golden <[email protected]>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>, [email protected], 
>  [email protected]
> 
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This may be a good feature, but it's a new feature, and would require
non-trivial changes in how the display engine lays out glyphs in the
so-called ``glyph row'' (which is a generalization of a line).  I
think I want to avoid that for now, as my job is huge even without
that.
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