[Bug 162200] "Text direction" in page style dialog, with both Asian and RTL-CTL, is inconsistent and confusing

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162200

Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> ---
It is indeed inconsistent. The term "Right to Left" is
inline-progression-direction in "Right to Left (Horizontal)" but
block-progression-direction in "Right to Left (Vertical)".

It would become consistent, when the terms of XSL are used
lr-tb
rl-tb
tb-rl
tb-lr

But that would not be understandable for users, so no option.

So my take is to not change it, but be more verbose in the help. The help has
currently:
Text direction
Select the text direction that you want to use in your document. The
"right-to-left (vertical)" text flow direction rotates all layout settings to
the right by 90 degrees, except for the header and footer.

The help could mention inline vs block progression-direction, and could name
scripts that use the direction.

The label "text-direction" is wrong, should be "writing-mode". Look at the
description of TextDirection and WritingMode and Writingmode2 in our API.

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