In the Paragraph Style dialog as well as the Drawing Style dialog, we see a preview-mockup in the corner of the dialog tab involving direction and alignment. The mockup contains several gray bars representing a paragraph and its surrounding paragraphs. While the mockup indicates the alignment well enough, it does not indicate the choice of direction in any way. I believe we should consider introducing some visual indication of the direction. Without getting into the specific bikeshedding of what indication that would be exactly, I believe it should be possible for it to be both easy-to-understand while also not interfering with the each of understand what the alignment would look like. Perhaps something involving arrows/directed triangles on top of the bars, at the beginning, on all bars or just the first one; or replacing the beginning edge of the first bar, e.g., very roughly: |>======== ========== ==== vs ========== ========== ==== which we have now. Thus for example right-aligned LTR-text would look like this: --------- --------- --------- ======<| ========= ==== --------- --------- --------- while right-aligned RTL-text would look like this: --------- --------- --------- =====<| ======== ==== --------- --------- ---------