[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 140655] New: Page naming "right" and "left" is wrong for right-to-to left documents should be "odd" and "even"

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140655

            Bug ID: 140655
           Summary: Page naming "right" and "left" is wrong for
                    right-to-to left documents should be "odd" and "even"
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 7.2.0.0.alpha0+ Master
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
                OS: Windows (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: rb.henschel at t-online.de

Created attachment 170041
  --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=170041&action=edit
Right-to-left document with alternating page styles for odd and even pages

Page arrangement with alternating "right" and "left" pages is currently really
confusing for RTL documents. I think, that the problems come in because the
wording "Right page" and "Left page" is used as page style names.

When you read "Left page" as "Odd page" and "Right page" as "Even page", it
becomes better. So the first page of a document is a "Odd page".

Same when you set the margins in the style dialog. Although your first page
will be on the left side in RTL, you have to select "Only right". Here too it
would be better to label it "Only odd". That would be neutral in regard to
writing direction.

The section "Margins" has physical positions for the margins for "Only right"
and "Only left". So here the terms "Left" and "Right" are correct. The error
for layout "mirrored" is tracked in bug 94847.

You can see the resulting page arrangements, when you switch to "Book view".
Use the attached file.

So my request is:
Rename page style
  "Right page" to "Odd page"
  "Left page" to "Even page"
Perhaps that could be done not with internal names, but on translation level?

In "Page layout" in section "Layout Settings" on tab "Page" in page style
dialog rename
  "Only right" to "Only odd"
  "Only left" to "Only even"

Tested with Version: 7.2.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 85a74ebd929d6396daf591a01f79758888fd7e4f
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19041; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

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