I'm not sure if this helps, but a colleague of mine had this to say
when I spoke to him about the issue:
"Knuth actually wrote a version of TeX called TeX-XeT in order to
support bidirectional printing. Back in 1987 he and Pierre MacKay wrote
an article about the problem, "Mixing right-to-left texts with
left-to-right texts"; it appears in Knuth's collection _Digital
typography_. Their typeset examples are a sight to behold, because of
course Knuth wanted to make the bidirectionality work correctly with line
breaks, hyphenation, and so on, and also wanted to accommodate both the
interests of people who use right-to-left text occasionally in a
left-to-right typesetting environment and those of people who use
left-to-right text occasionally in a right-to-left environment. And
arbitrarily many levels of nesting, right-to-left inside left-to-right
inside right-to-left inside left-to-right, etc."
David Romano
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote:
According to Wikipedia, Lyx "has substantial support for bidirectional
writing". So the problem is most likely with me, not with Lyx.
--
Dotan Cohen
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