Re: [emacs-bidi] Mixed L2R and R2L paragraphs and horizontal scroll

[Ehud Karni]

On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:01:17 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > In a wide screen with `right-margin-goal-column` set to 30:
> >     +------------------------------------------------------------+
> >     |              NI SELIF EHT TUP                              |
> >     |/dir1/sdr2/sdr3                                             |
> >     |           EHT EKAT LLIW I DNA                              |
> >     +------------------------------------------------------------+
> >
> > I hope this is clearer.
>
> Yes, it's clear.  But why is the last variant better than the others?
> Is there really significance to the relative horizontal positions of
> characters in different lines that makes it important to preserve that
> relation?

Think of 160 characters wide screen with short lines. It is difficult
to follow the order of the lines when some appear at left side and
some are on the right side.

Ehud.


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