Agree with Jonathan, and Heiko, and marking NAB. However (and perhaps to soften the blow):
1. In ODF documents, a (paragraph) style is not required to set all possible properties. It is possible to define a style with no direction (technically: no `style:writing-mode` proper; and it may also set the direction to 'inherit' from the superordinate object. While LibreOffice doesn't have UI for unsetting a style's direction, it could and should; and we do have UI for setting "inherit". So, if you edit your styles not to apply direction - then they won't, and your DF will work. 2. A bug is already on file regarding auto-detecting text direction: bug 162120. While that would not solve every use-case - it does make it easier to simply _not_ have to set the style explicitly yourself and for it to have a reasonable default via autodetection. 3. We are planning a discussion of text direction - extrinsic vs intrinsic, and these different bugs, next week on October 8th in the LibreOffice design meeting. You may be interested in attending that via jitsi: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/2025/msg00089.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1093765 Title: [upstream] switching paragraph style changes character orientation To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1093765/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
