Its glyphs were put in visual order and then cut where the path ran out, which kept the text's end. Now the longest start of the text, in reading order, whose glyphs fit in visual order is laid out, as area type does with each line it breaks, by the same rules that place the line: steps where the glyphs sit, hanging punctuation and the path beyond the brackets.
Jürg Lehni
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