https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147814
--- Comment #6 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Jonathan Clark from comment #5) > As part of this fix, I think we should also file a change request with the > ODF committee, asking them to define the semantics of style:tab-stop > style:type. Specifically, we should ask them to define "left" to mean > aligned from the start of the text, and "right" to mean aligned from the end > of the text, always relative to paragraph and layout direction. This would > match our implementation, and would also make the ODF spec explicitly cover > the TB cases which are presently underspecified. Is it really a good idea to ask for a "counter-textual" interpretation? As opposed to a change to the ODF in its next version to say "start" and end"? > I'm less sure about the use cases for the actually-from-left and > actually-from-right tab stops requested in the original post, but I've never > even needed to use the other tab stop types before so I might not be the > target audience. Maybe Eyal can elaborate on this request. Well, I'll admit this is a bit speculative, but - this is basically like Left and Right paragraph alignment. Why do we even need those at all? * Historical reasons. * Other apps which doesn't support Start and End (and we can't be sure that we need to convert L/R into S/E) * Content in which the physical direction has other significance than the direction of text progression. Specifically: * Correspondence to background/foreground images * Correspondence to positions and directions in physical/geographical space -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
