TextAlignment
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WORK IN PROGRESS
Issue 105270 - see here
The following is about how to solve issue 105270 for OpenOffice.org.
Text Alignment - OpenOffice.org vs. OpenDocument
In OpenOffice.org (OOo) the text alignment attribute values LEFT
and RIGHT
are treated independent from the writing direction of the paragraph.
In OpenDocument (ODF) which relies on XSL - http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/#text-align - the text alignment attribute values LEFT
and RIGHT
are mapped to START
and END
respectively and are dependent on the writing direction of the paragraph.
This is the root cause of issue 105270.
The text alignment of a paragraph whose writing direction is right-to-left and which is text-aligned at the right border is stored by OOo by ODF attribute fo:text-align="END"
.
fo:text-align="END"
is interpreted by OOo as internal text alignment attribute value RIGHT
in order to align the paragraph at the right border.
But, this is not correct.
According to ODF the text alignment attribute value END
means that the paragraph is text-aligned at the end-edge in the writing direction.
For a right-to-left paragraph this is the left border.
Solution
It looks like as this issue is easy to fix:
- Just change OOo's interpretation of
LEFT/START
andRIGHT/END
and everything is ok.
Unfortunately, it is not that easy :(
- OOo has corresponding UNO-APIs for the text alignment, namely com::sun::star::style::ParagraphProperties for paragraph and com::sun::star::table::CellProperties for the paragraphs in table cells.
These UNO-APIs have writing direction independent text alignment values LEFT
and RIGHT
.