https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169035
Bug ID: 169035
Summary: Change all Left default text alignments - hard-coded
and in templates - to Start
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
With the fix for bug 118350, LibreOffice now supports the "Start" and "End"
text alignment settings.
In almost all cases, people want to align text to the start-of-the-paragraph,
not to the left edge of it as such; and to the end-of-the-paragraph, rather
than to the right edge of it. For people writing left-to-right, those are
effectively the same thing, most of the time. But when switching the direction
of the paragraph, right-and-left remain the same, but start-and-end get
flipped; this is where the distinction matter - and the correct choice should
be made.
That choice is start-alignment rather than left-alignment, and this is what we
should default to, everywhere (except where we explicitly want things like
centering etc.)
That means, in particular, making that change in all of the document templates
we bundle, as well as wherever in the code we hard-code a fallback or default
value for text alignment in paragraph.
Similarly, where we currently align text to the Right, we may want to be
aligning to the End. Example: Some heading paragraphs in formal letters are
often right-aligned, e.g. date or address (although, arguably, they could be
left-aligned but indented far towards the right edge of an LTR page); these
alignments can be replaced with "align End".
Of course, it is problematic to make this change before our UI properly
supports this value, so see also bug 165507.
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