Bug 107041

Description:
There is no way to have vertical lined LTR text (e.g., traditional Mongolian) in a table. There is no way to have lines of text within a table flow vertically and then also begin new lines to the right.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a Table in a horizontal line document.

2. Click Table Properties.

3. Go to text orientation.

Actual Results:  
Note that there are only two options, horizontal and vertical. Clicking on the toolbar's LTR and RTL icons will make horizontal lines LTR and RTL and vertical lines top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top within each line.

Expected Results:
However, there is no way to dictate whether vertical lines should progress leftward or rightward.

The only option is to have vertical lines that go from top-to-bottom and then begin new lines to the left.


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: N/A

Additional Info:
5.3 boasted that it supported vertical LTR scripts like traditional Mongolian, but support is not complete.

I am more likely to write documents in horizontal lines, LTR, with sections quoting other languages and other scripts. The only way to display vertical text is with table inserts.

However, the only way to display traditional Mongolian script is to make the entire document vertical LTR in the Page Format options.


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