https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58070
Jonathan Clark <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- See Also| |https://bugs.documentfounda | |tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16 | |8537, | |https://bugs.documentfounda | |tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40 | |496 --- Comment #20 from Jonathan Clark <[email protected]> --- Bug 168537 and bug 40496 are related to this discussion. The issue is, users don't have a consistent mental model for how text direction should work. Sometimes, people expect text direction to be part of paragraph style, and are surprised when the software behaves inconsistently with that. Other times, people are annoyed because the software treats text direction as part of paragraph style, and wipes out their text direction choices. Sometimes, these are even the same people in different discussions. Currently, text direction is treated as a formatting attribute. It is presented this way in the user interface, and it's also how the software handles it under the hood. Absent any consensus, I recommend we try to live with the choices that have already been made: make the software behave consistently with direction as paragraph style/DF as it has been designed, and instead think of ways to guide users toward editing styles instead of this confusing DF. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
