[emacs-bidi] Re: Display of continuation lines

[Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

> As I slowly work on coding the sequential bidi algorithm suited for
> Emacs, one issue presented itself that I thought would be useful to
> discuss: how do we want to display continuation lines.
[...]
> The question is, given a bidirectional text:
>
>       abcdeABCDEFGH
>
> do we want it to be displayed like this:
>
>       abcdeHGF\
>       EDCBA
>
> or like this:
>
>       abcdeCBA\
>       HGFED

Whatever you do, there will be cases where it won't look good.  You can
see this in the newspapers where narrow columns are common... Go for the
simple solution instead.