https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168782

--- Comment #3 from Jonathan Clark <[email protected]> ---
Created attachment 203337
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Example showing layout and paragraph direction interacting

I'd also argue there is a problem with LO/ODF overloading a single attribute to
refer to two different concepts.

To make this even more interesting, consider the case of an RTL paragraph
inside a vertical Asian document (example attached). I suspect it's rare in the
real world, but it's a legitimate use case that is well-defined under ODF. In
this case, the page writing mode is vertical right-to-left (tb-rl), and the
paragraph writing mode is horizontal right-to-left (rl-tb). Even though the
text is vertical on the page, it is stored in the ODF and shown in the user
interface as "right-to-left", rather than something like "bottom-to-top".

I agree something could be done in the UI side to clarify this situation, but I
don't have any strong suggestions at the moment. I don't think it makes sense
to tie paragraph direction to layout direction more than it already is, though.

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