https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48804
--- Comment #19 from Regina Henschel <rb.hensc...@t-online.de> --- The rotation of a span of characters is specified in sections "15.4.42 Text Rotation Angle" and "15.4.43 Text Rotation Scale" of ODF 1.0 and ODF 1.1. The angle is restricted to 0, 90 and 270 degrees there. The attributes have moved to sections "20.375 style:text-rotation-angle" and "20.376 style:text-rotation-scale" in ODF 1.2. And in ODF 1.2 the restriction to 0, 90 and 270 degrees was removed. But some here mentioned use cases cannot be fulfilled with the rotation of a span of characters. They require a rotation of a block of paragraphs. That is possible when the text is put into a text box. But the implementation in LibreOffice lacks a lot. More about the problem in bug 149734. Rotation of a text box is done by the draw:transformation attribute. That is available since ODF 1.2. A block of paragraphs could also be rotated by using a writing mode. ODF 1.4 will contain attribute values "sideways-rl" (=90deg clockwise) and "sideways-lr" (=270deg clockwise) for attribute "20.404 style:writing-mode". But there will be no value for 180deg rotation. A value for 180deg rotation can only be added to the standard, when there exist applications that have implemented it. Using "sideways-rl" and "sideways-lr" together with a printer driver that rotates pages would solve some uses cases as well. But the implementation of these writing modes for body text is missing. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
