The fact automatic direction change is hardcoded is a serious
drawback, and not and advantage, imo. There are many subtle
points in bidi typesetting which can be addressed only in a

I believe the automatic direction change is the main advantage
otherwise typesetting with TeX is unnatural and useless.

Of course, but it shouldn't be _hardcoded_ in the TeX engine, but
programmed at a higher level (ie, tex macros, lua, etc.) so that
we can control its behaviour.

Javier
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