This should be changed to 'Centered', so that it is the same as Writer, Impress and Draw.
IMHO it's important to keep to word "Horizontally", to indicate that it centers only horizontally. You can see what I mean, when a cell is higher that the text height. And there is similar (hidden) button "Align Center Vertically", which does only vertial alignment.
I'm assuming that everyone seeing the left, center, right, justified icons next to each other is aware that these only refer to horizontal alignment and those seeing the top, center, bottom icons next to each other is aware these only refer to vertical alignment. Just noticed that Writer uses 'Top', 'Center ( vertical )', and 'Bottom', while Calc uses 'Align Top', 'Align Center Vertically' and 'Align Bottom'. It would be good to streamline these names as well.
(In reply to Jay Philips from comment #2) > I'm assuming that everyone seeing the left, center, right, justified icons > next to each other is aware that these only refer to horizontal alignment OK makes sense. But in that case maybe we need to change the "Align Center Vertically" to something like "Centered Vertically", so it won't lose the consistency with the horizontal one? > Just noticed that Writer uses 'Top', 'Center ( vertical )', and 'Bottom', > while Calc uses 'Align Top', 'Align Center Vertically' and 'Align Bottom'. > It would be good to streamline these names as well. Agree. I think that the Writer ones need to be changed.
The weird thing is that Format > Alignment has these as Default Left Centered Right Justified - separator - Top Center Bottom I think its worth removing 'Align' and 'Vertically' from all of these, as these are tooltips for buttons with icons, which illustrate what they already do.
Issue was discussed in design meeting and it was decided to unify all as Align Left, Center Horizontally, Align Right, Justified Align Top, Center Vertically, Align Bottom Patch submitted - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/12272
> Align Left, Center Horizontally, Align Right, Justified > Align Top, Center Vertically, Align Bottom Did we decide to use 'Center Vertically' and 'Center Horizontally'? I would prefer 'Align Middle' for vertical alignment and 'Align Center' for horizontal alignment.
I appreciate that the naming is now uniformed. I also have to remark that I was not involved in this discussion. But for me the solution seems to be ok, because with this you have an unambiguous and uniform naming, especially if you want to have uniform terms. But of course, "Align Middle" would also be possible, because MSO uses it and maybe many would associate "Middle" with the middle of a human body, so something vertical, but from my point of view it can also be used for horizontal aligment? If somebody asks you to place a ball in the middle of an empty room most will probably place it on the floor in the middle and would not say this impossible for me without tools because this means I have to place it vertical in the middle. Of course, maybe a strange example ... I only wanted to say that I would also use it horizontally. And if I take a look at dictionaries, then "middle" is the name for a point equally distant from two other points or extremes. Therefore, for me middle could maybe also be interpreted horizontally? And if you would only have the name "Align Middle" for a function to align objects with no further explanation, hints and no icons, would it be sure for you that this means vertical and not horizontal, thus be bijective? But why would you prefer "Middle"? I also want to note and emphasise that I am NOT a native English speaker! That's why, please correct if I am wrong. Maybe, we have here also an English native speaker who could help, because I could live with BOTH, but "Center Vertically" could maybe be a litte bit more bijective? For me it would also be very important to have also feedbacks from English native speakers to assess this issue. Maybe also from a linguist? And what do other software use? Do they use more "Align Middle" or something like "Center Vertically"? Thus, should we better switch to "Aling Middle"?
When I thought about this bug report I had another question. If you open IMPRESS and click into the main text area and then go to FORMAT -> PARAGRAPH -> tab ALIGNMENT. Why do I have only the option to align it horizontally? If I look at the Sidebar, then I have for the parapraph alignment also the option to align it vertically and this I would also expect in the above mentioned paragraph dialogue box. Is this maybe another bug? (tested with LO 4.3.3.2)
(In reply to A (Andy) from comment #8) > If you open IMPRESS and click into the main text area and then go to FORMAT > -> PARAGRAPH -> tab ALIGNMENT. Why do I have only the option to align it > horizontally? If I look at the Sidebar, then I have for the parapraph > alignment also the option to align it vertically and this I would also > expect in the above mentioned paragraph dialogue box. The Sidebar seems to manipulate the "Text Anchor" attribute from Format->Text... in that case.
Here is the list from other office suites MS Office: Align Left, Center, Alight Right, Justify Top Align, Middle Align, Bottom Align iWork: Pages (menu): Align Left, Align Center, Align Right, Justify Google Docs: Docs: Left Align, Center Align, Right Align, Justify Sheets: Horizontal Align (Left, Center, Right), Vertical Align (Top, Middle, Bottom) WordPerfect: Left, Right, Center, Full Top, Center, Bottom Calligra: Words: Align Left, Align Center, Align Right, Align Block Sheets: Left Justify, Center, Align Right, Align Top, Align Centered, Align Bottom (In reply to Samuel Mehrbrodt from comment #6) > Did we decide to use 'Center Vertically' and 'Center Horizontally'? > I would prefer 'Align Middle' for vertical alignment and 'Align Center' for > horizontal alignment. I believe their will be problems with using center and middle, is they are synonyms (interchangeable words) and this will also prove difficult when translating as for example in arabic, 'Align Center' and 'Align Middle' would be translated as the exact same thing.
Yousuf Philips committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=b7c8b76b67b132fc79af75d4305528f2db1d9539 fdo#85825 unify alignment tooltips It will be available in 4.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Yousuf Philips committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=530226ca69f58bdb780a6864372f9de329c93e5b fdo#85825 incorrectly used 'vertically' for 'horizontally' It will be available in 4.5.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Yousuf Philips committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-4": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=dccaa2b12871b801aacba3e358a8e34829218b49&h=libreoffice-4-4 fdo#85825 incorrectly used 'vertically' for 'horizontally' (4.4) It will be available in 4.4.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.