https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168782
--- Comment #2 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Jonathan Clark from comment #1) > They haven't disappeared. Layout direction is a property of pages, so the > vertical-first writing modes can only be set on page styles. Paragraph > direction, on the other hand, exists for the purposes of the Unicode BiDi > Algorithm; lr-tb and rl-tb are the only meaningful values. So, that gives me the explanation of what's happening. But - I don't think this is an acceptable situation, from a user's perspective. First and foremost - its a property with the same name and 3 of the 5 possible values are the same. Users cannot be expected to interpret the meaning of "text direction" differently. If the page-level text direction was set to "Right-to-Left (Vertical)", then the paragraph text direction would be expected to be the same thing. If the user were to see only "(vertical)" options, or only "(horizontal)" options - they would understand that the other two options are currently not available, since the paragraph is necessarily-vertical or necessarily-horizontal. That would be less confusing, or perhaps I should say better adhering to the principle of least astonishment[1]. Second - there is no inherent reason why vertical-vs-horizontal writing mode aspect would only be a property of pages rather than of paragraphs. It is quite possible to render one paragraph of text in tblr, and a subsequent paragraph in lrtb, for example. Doing so might not even necessitate the next paragraph being on another page: that would depend on how far along the page the first paragraph's text would reach. Now, sure, it may be the case that LO, or ODF, don't support this - but that lack of support does not translate into a user assuming that paragraph direction should hide the very existence of a vertical vs horizontal aspect. So, bottom line, I think I'm asking, for now, that the values in the PS dialog text direction will have the same parenthetical qualifier as in the PgS dialog; or, alternatively, that we include some label indicating that the directions are vertical-first. [1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
