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title="UNCONFIRMED - Support for "start" / "end" text alignment"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131192">131192</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Support for "start" / "end" text alignment
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>3.3.0 release
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>eyalroz@technion.ac.il
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<pre>Libreoffice supports the following types of text (paragraph) alignment:
* Left: Align the leftmost character on each line to the left boundary
* Right: Align the leftmost character on each line to the right boundary
* Center: Align so that the content on each line is equidistant from the left
and right boundaries.
* Justify: Space so that each line except the last starts and ends at the left
and right margin respectively; align last line to start
Note that I used the term "start" in there. Indeed, it is not "Justify and
align last line to left" or "to right" - it is to the start of the flow of
characters in the paragraph. This hints that the full set of alignment modes
should be
* Left
* Right
* Start
* End
* Center
[ ] Justify all lines but last
Justification is not an independent mode - the last line can have any one of
left, right, stand and end alignments.
When you're only working with left-to-right text, there is no distinguishing
between "Start" and "Left", and between "End" and "Right" - that's how LTR text
flows. But these are conceptually different. And when we change paragraph
direction, Left/Right alignment should not be affected, while Start/End should
be flipped.
It should be noted that:
* The UI doesn't fully match this functionality (in different applications).
* We get confused about file formats which do support Start/End, see <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_NEW "
title="NEW - Writer saves text alignment of RTL paragraph not according to the ODF specification"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=37128">bug 37128</a>.
* This causes interoperability issues when other apps do use Start and End -
but not consistently and not quite opaquely. See <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_NEW "
title="NEW - Writer can't handle RTL direction from MS office odt file."
href="show_bug.cgi?id=118350">bug 118350</a>.</pre>
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