On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:06:07PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> Shlomi Fish wrote:
> >Hi! I created a document in OpenOffice:
> >
> >http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/homesteading/
> >
> >The document's main language is Hebrew, but I started writing it with an
> >English main language. As a result, the headings, endnotes and in the HTML
> >some of the bullets, are displayed left-aligned. How do I change the main
> >language of this specific document to Hebrew?
> >
> >I'm using OpenOffice 1.1 RC.
> >
> >(someone recommended me to use Tools -> Options -> "Language Settings" but
> >this will set the application-wide defaults, which I don't want to.
> >
> 
> 1. Select all the text.
> 2. Right click and choose "Edit Paragraph Style..."
> 3. In the "Alignment" tab, change the "Text direction" property to 
> "Right to left".
> 4. Click "OK.
> 5. Rejoice.

Somehow I was expecting a document-wide property. I believe Shlomi is
interested here in the HTML produced from the document. Such methods
produce ugly HTML: each paragraph has its oown specific "visual"
formatting. Very unlike the spirit of HTML.  Not to mention that the
HTML gets inflated.

And you get a property-wide base direction of LTR that is overriden on
each paragraph. Take a look at the bullets, where it accidentally wasn't
overriden.

In other words: All that is needed is a way to tell OpenOffice to change
the BODY tag a bit. Not to further inflate the produced html.

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