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Re: display word wrapping


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: display word wrapping
Date: 26 May 2004 21:39:25 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

> > From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> > Date: 26 May 2004 16:50:24 +0200
> > 
> > But I think it would probably be shortsighted to tackle automatic
> > word wrap before the Bidi branch has been merged as well: that one
> > has a lot of potential for interference with word wrapping.
> 
> Out of curiosity: why do you think so?  That is, what aspects of
> bidirectional support did you have in mind when you wrote that?

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.  Or something.  I don't want to think too much about this or
I'll get a headache.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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