Re: Mixed L2R and R2L paragraphs and horizontal scroll

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:02:59 +0000
> From: David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, 
>  address@hidden
> 
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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.