Re: Chinese RtoL? (Was: Re: RE: Line breaks in [CJK]?)

Thomas Chan scripsit:

> That doesn't hold up for multi-line text. e.g., at an archive of
> newspaper clippings[1], there is a clipping from a 1999 issue (date not
> indicated) of an article[2], where the four-line photo caption is a single
> sentence paragraph, with a paragraph indent, text running rtl, and
> embedded English text running ltr (but the list commas and open/close
> quotes are still ltr style).

Okay, I'm sold. Now: why is it being done this way?

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