In LibreOffice, Right click on the table->Table->Text Direction->Right-to-Left.
Now, does what you see seem right to you? As a side-note, the OrgOdtStyles.xml using a LibreOffice that uses en-GB (IN). So, there could be "issues" when it is used with "other" languages. You will be better of creating a .ott file that uses language and country of your choice. See Tools->Options->Language Settings->Languages->Default Languages for Documents->Whatever. I have seen recommendations of using CTL->Hebrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------- As an experiment, look at your *Messages* buffer and see where the exporter is loading OrgOdtStyles.xml from. In the same directory, there would be a OrgOdtContentTemplate.xml. Look for the "OrgTable" style spec. <style:style style:name="OrgTable" style:family="table"> <style:table-properties style:rel-width="96%" fo:margin-top="0cm" fo:margin-bottom="0.20cm" table:align="center"/> </style:style> Add a style:writing-mode="rl-tb" to the table-properties. i.e., do this <style:style style:name="OrgTable" style:family="table"> <style:table-properties style:rel-width="96%" fo:margin-top="0cm" fo:margin-bottom="0.20cm" table:align="center" style:writing-mode="rl-tb"/> </style:style> Now re-export. See whether things are OK. Rememeber, the style "OrgTable" (which is an automatic style because it comes from content.xml and not styles.xml) gets applied to ALL your tables. ---------------------------------------------------------------- As a developer note, the ox-odt.el already can create automatic-style for tables. If a table has a rel-width attr_odt line, it would use an automatic style. So it is just a matter of few 15 minutes for one to add support for how a table is rendered. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Since we have an exporter framework in place, the question I would probably ask is what does LaTeX do. Meaning, is there a need to mark a table as rtl when being exported to LaTeX. If yes, what would be the specific attribute that the maintainer of ox.el recommend. ---------------------------------------------------------------- I will queue up a fix for this in my private repo: http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode/org-kjn.git I WILL merge my fixes and improvements once Emacs has the current release cycle for Emacs is over. If you try out the suggestions above and give me feedback, I will factor in input in to my fix. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Uwe Brauer <o...@mat.ucm.es> writes: > Hello > > > Please consider the following example of a hebrew text, which is written > in logical form. > > פרויקט לשמור מגדל פיזה שעלה 20 מיליון אירו השלים לאחרונה. > > When exported to odt, the first sentence is displayed correctly. > However when I try to put it in a table as the following lines > indicates. > > Then this table is displayed L2R. > > | פרויקט| לשמור| מגדל| פיזה| שעלה| 20| מיליון | אירו| השלים | > לאחרונה.| > > > I attach the odt file. > > This seems a sort of bug? > > Uwe Brauer