[emacs-bidi] Does this sample file look right?

[Scot Becker]

I'd be glad to know if the way this file appears to me (attached as
sample.txt and copied below) is the way I should expect it.
(viewed with emacs -Q and bidi-display-reordering set to 't')

What I see:  The Hebrew paragraphs are happily RTL, and vowels look
good, depending on the font.  But the paragraphs are also
left-aligned.  This means that the short ones start half way through
the screen line (rather than at the right edge), and the longer ones
wrap UPwards if the window is narrow.  E.g. two-line paragrahs start
on the second line, and proceed leftwards till the logical end of the
screen line, then continue on the right edge of the preceding line.
This happens also with visual line mode on.

Is the left-alignment a feature of this particular file, or of the
Emacs bidi display algorigthm?  If it's a feature of the file
---perhaps a single LTR character at the start of the RTL paragraphs?
The file is the product of an OpenOffice export of a original .doc
file--- can someone suggest a way to regex-replace the file to make
the Heb paragraphs right-align (as you might guess the original text
file is somewhat longer).  I'd prefer the English left-align, but
that's less important.  I tried to set bidi-paragraph-direction
without success.

Or is that layout just what you'd expect given that we're dealing with
bi-directional text?

Thanks,

Scot

Here's the snippet.  If it doesn't work here, it's also attached.

GENESIS
Gen. 1:1
בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ׃
Gen. 1:2
וְהָאָרֶץ הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ וְחֹשֶׁךְ עַל־פְּנֵי תְהֹום וְרוּחַ
אֱלֹהִים מְרַחֶפֶת עַל־פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם׃

hebsample.txt
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