[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 112878] RTL: Writer paragraph styles set to left alignment, which isnt usable for RTL languages

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112878

Justin L <jluth at mail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
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--- Comment #7 from Justin L <jluth at mail.com> ---
I fully agree with Eyal that this is not a bug. Pressing the RTL paragraph
button does not "switch to RTL" for the document, but only for the paragraph.

There are several more appropriate ways to "switch to RTL"
1.) setting the locale to an RTL language is best for RTL writers/speakers
since this will affect every new document automatically.
2.) setting the default paragraph style to RTL is probably best way to specify
RTL for a specific document.
3.) setting each page style to RTL (although that has been buggy if exporting
to MS formats).

Since option #2 is extremely easy to do (for those who normally want to create
LTR documents and thus don't choose option #1), I don't see any reason for any
"enhancement" requests.

> The switching doesnt happen only if you set the user locale to a RTL language.
This is not exactly true. Now the switching happens if you specify LTR for a
paragraph - in which case the Heading 1 switches it back to RTL.

Since this is a Yousuf bug report, there is probably something that is missing
in the conversation so far - because he always reports real bugs. Perhaps he is
 requesting for the paragraph's RES_FRAMEDIR property not be cleared when a
"inherit from environment" paragraph style is applied. If there is precedence
for keeping "sticky" settings for other paragraph properties, then I could
consider changing this to be a valid enhancement request. Something like this
could be helpful for people who mix LTR and RTL content in the same document.

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