Reproduction: 1. Create a Writer document 2. (Ensure that Default Page Style direction is LTR) 3. Insert a Footnote 4. Change the Default Page Style direction to RTL Expected results: After step (3.), the footnotes appear on the left side of the page. After step (4.), the footnotes appear on the right side of the page. Actual results: After step (3.), the footnotes appear on the left side of the page. After step (4.), the footnotes remain on the same side. Note that there's also bug 133818 regarding the footnote separator. This is a result of the lack of a "Start" alignment style.
Hello, after reviewing this I can confirm that the behavior is a bit counterintuitive. Even after setting up LibreOffice with "Complex Text Layout" and changing the Default Page Style, any previously typed items do not change to that alignment. However they can be aligned through use of CTRL+Shift+D (for RTL) or CTRL+Shift+A (for LTR). I'm not sure if this is intentional to prevent loss of any previously established formatting. Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 9bc5b89c149497a83117edfadc3fb0b96d2f9899 CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Version: 25.2.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: bbb074479178df812d175f709636b368952c2ce3 CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (10.0 build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
(In reply to Jeremy Norvell from comment #1) > However they can be aligned through use of > CTRL+Shift+D (for RTL) or CTRL+Shift+A (for LTR). The bug is that you need to manually align them. That should not be necessary, when a user indicates the pages are RTL. > I'm not sure if this is intentional to prevent loss of any previously > established formatting. I assure you it isn't. But if it were - that would have been a mistake. Also, in the reproduction instructions, there _is_ no "previously-established formatting".