[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 144296] Under-engineered and inconsistent overflow/extension direction choice incl. with cell edit mode

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144296

--- Comment #8 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #7)
> RTL should behave like LTR: overflow to the cell right-hand (or left-hand)
> if empty on editing and when done.

I believe this is too simplistic, for several reasons:

1. You write "RTL" or "LTR", but - this is not always uniform. What if the cell
is RTL and the sheet/page is LTR? Overflow outside the cell is, on one hand,
part of the cell's contents; but on the other hand it is a
multi-cell/sheet-level phenomenon.

2. Should the alignment really not affect the direction of extension? If your
text extends in a certain direction _within_ the cell, why not have it extend
in the same direction outside the cell, as well?

3. The cell edit mode is more of a UI element - like the cell contents line on
the toolbar - than a part of the "final" sheet. With this being the case - what
if the LO UI is RTL but the cell and sheet are LTR? Should not the UI direction
be accounted for w.r.t. how text appears in cell edit mode? 

Like I said earlier, I haven't formed an opinion of my own on all this, but
your single sentence doesn't answer these questions.

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