The decision to make the text direction a formatting attribute is a LO's idiosyncrasy; the text never changes its direction, it is its immutable semantic property.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1093765 Title: [upstream] switching paragraph style changes character orientation Status in LibreOffice: Confirmed Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: 1) lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 13.04 Release: 13.04 2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer libreoffice-writer: Installed: 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3) What is expected to happen in Writer via a terminal: cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1093765/+attachment/3688368/+files/test-bug1093765.doc && lowriter --nologo test-bug1093765.doc is select all -> change combo box Apply Style from Text Body to Heading 1 and the text style changes, preserving the character order. 4) What happens instead is: (Example text=) טקסט לדוגמה changes to: טקסט לדוגמה (=Example text) Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Word Version 14.0.6023.1000 (32-bit) changes it to: =)טקסט לדוגמהExample text( ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: libreoffice-core 1:3.6.2~rc2-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-21.32-generic 3.5.7.1 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Dec 26 11:20:42 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-19 (67 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1093765/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp