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> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: 26 May 2004 21:39:25 +0200
> 
> Well, if you change writing direction in the line, then soft-wrapping
> a line pushes out words from the _middle_ of the line into the next
> line.

Well, actually this problem should not happen at all, since the
display engine (in its bidi variation) first reorders the characters,
i.e. it fetches characters in _visual_ order, and only after that
decides whether to wrap.

Anyway, I agree it's not useful to discuss that too much at this time.