[upstream] Text cannot be rotated in a RTL table in LibreOffice Writer

[Miikka-Markus Alhonen]

Text can normally be rotated either 90 or 270 degrees through the Character > Position dialog box. This works even in tables, but only if the table’s text direction is set to Left-to-right. If the table’s text direction is set to Right-to-left through the Table properties dialog, no rotation takes effect. See the screenshot of a document, where there are two identical tables, one marked as LTR and the other as RTL. Text is rotated as expected in the LTR table, while nothing seems to happen in the other one.

Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10

libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:5.4.6-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
  Candidate: 1:5.4.6-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
  Version table:
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        500 http://mr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:5.4.5-0ubuntu0.17.10.5 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-security/main amd64 Packages
     1:5.4.1-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://mr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: libreoffice-writer 1:5.4.6-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-41.46-generic 4.13.16
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-41-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon May 21 15:39:19 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-13 (462 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-11-05 (196 days ago)

[Miikka-Markus Alhonen (malhonen)]

The ODT document used to create the screenshot.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Sorry for the lack of feedback until now, Miikka.
I can reliably reproduce the issue with libreoffice 6.0.3.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 and libreoffice 6.1.0.3 installed as a snap.

At a first glance this looks like an upstream issue to me. Would you mind filing a bug report at https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LibreOffice&format=guided and linking to it here so we can track its resolution? Thanks!

[Miikka-Markus Alhonen (malhonen)]

Description:
Text can normally be rotated either 90 or 270 degrees through the Character > Position dialog box. This works even in tables, but only if the table’s text direction is set to Left-to-right. If the table’s text direction is set to Right-to-left through the Table properties dialog, no rotation takes effect. See the screenshot of a document, where there are two identical tables, one marked as LTR and the other as RTL. Text is rotated as expected in the LTR table, while nothing seems to happen in the other one.

This bug was first reported on Launchpad for LO 5.4.6.2 on Ubuntu 17.10 at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1772445 . After my initial report, I have upgraded to LO 6.0.3.2 and can still reproduce the problem. Another user on Launchpad confirmed the bug on LO 6.0.3.2 and 6.1.0.3, as well.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Writer, create a table and write some text in it.
2. Select the text and rotate it by 90 degrees through the Character > Position dialog box.
3. Change the directionality of the table to Right-to-Left through the Table properties dialog.

Actual Results:
The text becomes horizontal, as it was before rotation.

Expected Results:
The text should be rotated by 90 degrees, as happens in a Left-to-Right table.

Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:

[Miikka-Markus Alhonen (malhonen)]

Created attachment 144551
Screenshot of a LTR and a RTL table which both have rotated text

[Miikka-Markus Alhonen (malhonen)]

Created attachment 144552
ODT document used to create the screenshot

[Miikka-Markus Alhonen (malhonen)]

I filed an upstream report at https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119604

[Beluga (beluga)]

Repro.

Version: 6.2.0.0.alpha0+ (x64)
Build ID: 3208fcb3a36d75d6290d9c548430682f153b09db
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default;
TinderBox: Win-x86_64@42, Branch:master, Time: 2018-09-20_22:43:20
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI); Calc: threaded

Arch Linux 64-bit
Version: 6.2.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 8b1501d80dc9d3f42c351c6e026fa737e116cae5
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.18; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3_kde5;
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); Calc: threaded
Built on 23 September 2018

Arch Linux 64-bit
LibreOffice 3.3.0
OOO330m19 (Build:6)
tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4

[Qa-admin-q (qa-admin-q)]

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[Miikka-Markus Alhonen (malhonen)]

Still reproducible on:

Version: 6.3.2.2
Build ID: libreoffice-6.3.2.2-snap1
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3;
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

[timur (ba.timur)]

Repro 7.0+.
Seems that RTL text in table doesn't go RTL. I guess another bug that should be in See Also.

[Qa-admin-q (qa-admin-q)]

Dear vaaydayaasra,

To make sure we're focusing on the bugs that affect our users today, LibreOffice QA is asking bug reporters and confirmers to retest open, confirmed bugs which have not been touched for over a year.

There have been thousands of bug fixes and commits since anyone checked on this bug report. During that time, it's possible that the bug has been fixed, or the details of the problem have changed. We'd really appreciate your help in getting confirmation that the bug is still present.

If you have time, please do the following:

Test to see if the bug is still present with the latest version of LibreOffice from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/

If the bug is present, please leave a comment that includes the information from Help - About LibreOffice.

If the bug is NOT present, please set the bug's Status field to RESOLVED-WORKSFORME and leave a comment that includes the information from Help - About LibreOffice.

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2. Test your bug
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MassPing-UntouchedBug

[Miikka-Markus Alhonen (malhonen)]

Reproducible on:

Version: 7.3.0.3 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 0f246aa12d0eee4a0f7adcefbf7c878fc2238db3
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR); UI: fr-FR
Calc: CL

[Stephane-guillou-i (stephane-guillou-i)]

Reproduced in:

Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: fdc87dd56548622e13353b4cf9864232ee0110fb
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded