Issue 8380 - Proposal: Vertical Text Rotation should be a Paragraph Option
Summary: Proposal: Vertical Text Rotation should be a Paragraph Option
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 643
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: josh
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2002-10-16 05:56 UTC by josh
Modified: 2003-09-08 16:56 UTC (History)
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Description josh 2002-10-16 05:56:25 UTC 
Folks -

Logically, vertical text rotation should be a paragraph formatting option, 
*not* a character formatting option.  Consistency, hey?

-Josh Berkus
Comment 1 openoffice 2002-10-16 10:44:56 UTC 
dvo->agliodbs: Why? 

You have a writing mode (left-ro-right, right-to-left) at the
paragraph (and also with pages frames, which can also be
top-to-bottom) which determines how the paragraph as a whole is laid
out. You also have a character attribute which allows you to rotate
individual text runs different from the main text layout. AFAIK, the
writing mode also contains some 'fancy' stuff like doing hebrew
right-to-left and embedded numbers left-to-right, while the rotation
will rotate just anything. Those are two things (and apparently useful
one for certain languages). I don't see an inconsistency.

Josh, if you disagree on the feature (i.e. on what we do), you might
want to reassign this to ft@openoffice.org (Falko). If you agree with
the feature but think the implementation is wrong (i.e. on how we do
it), you might want to reassign this to fme@openoffice.org (Frank).
Comment 2 frank.meies 2002-10-21 16:13:26 UTC 
FME->agliodbs: How should the layout look like if your first paragraph
is vertical, second is horizontal, third is vertical and so on?
Comment 3 josh 2002-10-28 21:03:40 UTC 
Frank,

I'm not sure; I can't imagine any format that would not require user
intervention to decide where vertical text should go.

Further, carriage returns do bizarre things in the current
implementation of vertical text.  So vertical paragraphs are currently
not possible.

So maybe we should leave things as they are.   Sorry to bother everybody.

-Josh
Comment 4 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 09:50:25 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for
details. First step in IssueZilla is unfortunately to set them to verified.
Comment 5 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 09:51:21 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for
details. First step in IssueZilla is unfortunately to set them to verified.
Comment 6 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 10:26:15 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for details.
Comment 7 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 10:26:36 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for details.