Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
Summary: | writing direction enhancement | ||||||
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Product: | Writer | Reporter: | stadt <staedtler-przyborski> | ||||
Component: | formatting | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> | ||||
Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |||||
Severity: | Trivial | ||||||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | issues, lars_o_hansen | ||||
Version: | OOo 2.0.1 | Keywords: | oooqa | ||||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
Hardware: | All | ||||||
OS: | All | ||||||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- | ||||
Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||||||
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Description
stadt
2005-12-01 12:55:27 UTC
In OOo it is a drop-downlist "text direction" in the tab "page" of the page-style. Why do you need buttons? The dropdown list is only visible if 'Complex Text Layout' is activated in 'Setup/Language'. Additionally the dropdown list allows only left > right and right >left. If you activate additionally 'use asian language' you get right > left (vertikal). Left > right (vertikal) as proposed is missing. Both language settings are deactivated by default here in germany Most users never would see the possibility to change writimg direction, would never be aware that changing writing direction is possible in OOWriter. IMHO the Lotus Smartsuite Solution (4 buttons in page setup, accessible by default, independendly from language settings) is more user friendly. Changing writing direction for everybody would allow more complex documents (e.g. for brochueres, flyers). Another soulution could be that writing in frames allows to set writing direction. Naturally I don't insist on 'Buttons'. The dropdown list for everybody and additionally equipped with left >right (vertikal) would be sufficient too. according to http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/workflowcharts/RFE_issues_by_QA.sxd I reassign this issue to requirements and set the status to new Bugs in text direction support: 1.No User Interface to format the text direction of paragraph. I can only find Format -> Page which does it for the entire page. Please refer to attachment for an example. 2.Alignment (Left, Right and Centre) doesn't work properly for vertical text. The alignment is on a horizontal basis. Created attachment 45994 [details]
Demonstration of text direction
following release status meeting -> target 3.x |