[Bug 165299] Add direction indication to mock-preview in style dialog

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165299

--- Comment #2 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> Pretty clear what left/right means. 

That's _alignment_, not direction. It's not clear where the text starts and in
which direction it progresses.

> And if you have the text direction in
> mind, it should be "Use superordinate object settings" and we don't know
> what this is.

No, it shouldn't - unless the direction of the entire page is uniform. That is
sometimes the case, and sometimes - not. When it isn't, it is typically
Paragraph Styles which set another direction.

(It may also be Drawing Object Styles, but we don't have those in Writer yet.)

> Switching explicitly to LTR or RTL should not be required and
> used much

When you're writing documents involving text in both RTL and LTR languages,
this is required for some of the styles.

> and drawing an indicator in those rare cases does not justify the
> effort, IMO.

They are not rare at all. Middle-Easterners write a lot of English and some
French, East-Asians write a lot of English, and Africans write a lot of French.
And when doing that, documents often involve content in both directions.

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