https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162201
Bug ID: 162201
Summary: Table > Properties > Text Flow > Text Orientation is
misphrased and confusing
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 24.2.4.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
In text styling, the word "orientation" typically refers to individual glyphs;
not to progressions of glyphs along a line or lines along a page or area.
It is therefore confusing to use the phrase "Text Orientation" for a table
cell, and have values that seem to correspond to writing modes: Horizontal and
Vertical.
Moreover, we have "Vertical top to bottom" - what does that mean? What goes
from top to bottom? The glyphs? Doesn't make much sense. The lines within the
cell? But in Vertical orientation, that should be either LTR or RTL. So, is it
the direction within the rotated line/paragraph? Again no, one can change the
paragraph direction.
In fact, it actually means "Vertical, Left to Right" and "Vertical, Right to
Left". Indeed, it is the writing mode of the table cell.
So let's name that setting "Writing Mode:" ; this will be consistent both with
CSS, and with the correction suggested in bug 162200 for the Page style dialog.
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