https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156317
Bug ID: 156317
Summary: Table Properties | Table | Text Direction | Use
superordinate object settings doesn't seem to do
anything
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.5.3.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
In bug 156274, it was agreed that "Table Properties | Table | Text Direction"
is misnamed, since this sets the direction of the *table*, not the *text* in
the table.
There is another confusing, potentially broken thing about the options for this
setting. In the dropbox, the options are: "Left-to-right (LTR)", "Right-to-left
(RTL)", and "Use superordinate object settings." As far as I can tell, though,
"use superordinate object settings" does nothing, and it's not even clear what
it would mean in this case. All the help says about this setting
(https://help.libreoffice.org/7.5/en-US/text/swriter/01/05090100.html?System=WIN&DbPAR=WRITER&HID=modules/swriter/ui/formattablepage/FormatTablePage#bm_id3149052)
is:
"Text direction
Specify the text direction for a paragraph that uses complex text layout (CTL).
This feature is only available if complex text layout support is enabled."
A table isn't a paragraph, so it's not clear what the "superordinate object"
would be. In practice, I tried this setting with the paragraph prior to the
table being set to LTR and RTL, both using direct formatting and an RTL
paragraph style, and nothing about the table direction (or direction of text in
the table's cells) changed. This option should either be dropped or fixed.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Note the text direction of the current style (LTR or RTL). Press return.
2. Create a table.
3. Click on the table and go to Table | Table Properties. Note that "text
direction" is set to whatever the text direction was when you created the
table.
4. Set "text direction" to "use superordinate object settings."
5. Click on the previous paragraph. Change the text direction, either from LTR
to RTL or RTL to LTR.
6. Go back to the table. Note that nothing about the table has changed --
neither the direction of the cells (i.e., whether pressing tab takes you to the
right cell or left cell in LTR and RTL mode, respectively), nor the direction
of the text in the cells.
Actual Results:
Nothing changes about the directionality of the table.
Expected Results:
The table should change direction to match the changed direction of the
previous paragraph. (Or, better in my view, this option should not exist.)
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
Version: 7.5.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 9f56dff12ba03b9acd7730a5a481eea045e468f3
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.1 Service Pack 1 Build 7601; UI render:
Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
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