OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

  • 1.  Paragraph Alignment

    Posted 09-22-2003 13:43
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    Subject: Paragraph Alignment


    Hi all,
    
    I had an action item to determine the use of the paragraph alignment 
    attribute in OOo XML.
    
    Well, OOo uses a subset of the fo:text-align attribute, namely the 
    values 'start', 'end', 'justify' and 'center'. However, OOo interprets 
    'start'/'end' as 'left'/'right'. I guess we could consider that a bug in 
    the OOo implementation, in that 'start'/'end' are clearly intended to be 
    writing-mode dependent, while 'left'/'right' are not. The original 
    fo:text-align attribute supports both, 'left'/'right' and 'start'/'end'.
    
    So, I see two requirements here:
    1. We need to represent our old documents (with left/right alignment)
    2. David needs a writing-mode dependent start alignment.
    
    A fairly obvious solution is to extend the range of allowed 
    fo:text-align attribute values to cover all these cases, i.e. 'left', 
    'right', 'start', 'center', 'justify', and this is what I propose the TC 
    will accept.
    
    So far, nobody asked for an 'end' alignment. I'm not sure if it would 
    make sense to include it anyway.
    
    
    Sincerely,
    Daniel
    
    


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