[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 133818] Footnote separator direction should inherit from page style

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133818

--- Comment #5 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #3)
> tl;dr: Agree that paragraphs shouldn't inherit from the page; but footnote
> separators should.
> 
> (In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #2)
> > It is strange to have text direction to depend on page settings
> 
> But:
> 
> 1. That's what we have in Calc.

I don't see that. Trying to change page style direction does not change text
direction for me. Additionally: in Calc, you have page belonging to Sheet; and
cells also belonging to sheet, and text belonging to cells, so the structure of
dependencies is very different.

> >, i.e. that
> > LTR/RTL suddenly changes when page settings change. The direction is the
> > text property, not the page property.
> 
> Why would this be sudden?

Because you e.g. have a RTL style which defines an LTR "Next style" on its
organizer. You have some paragraphs on the first (RTL) page. You decide to add
some content above the last paragraph; and you type new paragraphs above until
the last paragraph can't fit on page 1 anymore -> it goes to page 2, which has
an LTR style -> sudden change of *paragraph* direction.

> > Additionally, a page
> > style is a property of paragraph - so page properties cannot be
> > superordinate to paragraph (?).
> 
> A page style is a property of a paragraph? No, it isn't. If you change the
> page style, the margins and size change on the page. Paragraphs don't affect
> that.

You are wrong. It's paragraph settings that define which page style they use.
See Paragraph (style)->Text Flow->Breaks->Insert->Page->With page style. Pages
in Writer are artifacts of layouting, not primary objects. They are created as
needed to place the actual content; and content defines which page styles to
use for its placement (it might be "don't care, use whatever was set before",
or "start a new page for me with this exact style").

(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #4)
> Mike, would you confirm with the altered title?

So is your proposal to add a footnote separator direction choice like "follow
page text direction"? I would agree (as a low-priority enhancement, since
currently existing option allows all kinds of formatting, although implementing
that would require one tweaking less).

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