https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164503
Bug ID: 164503
Summary: [META] Multiple bugs manifesting in
LO->ODT->MSO->DOCX->LO round-trip of formal letter
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 24.8.4.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Consider the soon-to-be attached documents. It is a formal letter, in the
Hebrew language - one of the most popular kinds of documents people use Word
Processors for.
We start with the letter in LO Writer (I've replaced the actual text with
gibberish, mostly). Actually, there's a bit of a fib here, since this document
might have, at some point in the past, been an opened DOCX that got modified,
so not written from _scratch_ in Writer probably. But, be that as it may - we
now:
1. Save letter as ODT; this is the first attachment
2. Open the letter with MS Office Word 16, on Windows.
3. Save the letter as a Word Document, i.e. DOCX, in MSO Word; that DOCX is the
second attachment.
4. Open the DOCX file in LibreOffice
Comparing the two documents in LO Writer, we observe several differences:
1. Some paragraphs - but not all of them - have LTR rather than RTL direction.
2. The originally left-aligned first paragraph, when flipping its direction to
RTL - doesn't become left-aligned again, but right-aligned; and then if we flip
again, it _does_ become left-aligned, i.e. doesn't revert to LTR and
right-aligned
3. The title paragraph is no longer centered
4. The underline width for the "Title Subject Part" text is thinner than it was
originally.
5. The DF paragraph border for the Default Paragraph Style second-to-last
paragraph (which is actually not very well formatted, it should have its own
style, but that's not a bug, just a gaffe on my part with the original
document) - loses its bottom border in the DOCX.
6. The "Body Text" paragraphs now have style "Text Body (WW)"
7. The "Body Text" paragraphs are now no longer justified, but right-aligned
8. The first two characters in the first paragraph are rendered as "English,
USA", i.e. with the Western LG font - even though Writer _is_ able to figure
out the rest of the paragraph, including the trailing numbers, are "Hebrew"
Now, some of these issues are likely already-reported bugs. For those, let's
mark this bug as blocked by those issues. For yet-unreported bugs, let's add
the report and then mark the new bugs as blocking this one.
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