How to render vertical text normally?
Hello! I have a problem with text direction inside table in LibreOffice Writer 6.3 (Windows).
How MS Office Word 2010 and 2016 render it:
How LibreOffice Writer 6.3 renders it:
Even if I edit this table in LibreOffice it still looks awful. How to make it work in a proper way?
Please file a bug report with a problematic document attached.
It is not a bug, it is a fundamental difference in features of the two office suites and their respective file formats (see my answer). In my opinion, rotation of contents in text table cells is a feature quite worth to be implemented in ODT, but so far filing any report is useless. I mean, filing to LibreOffice Bugzilla. I do not know if / how it is possible to file feature requests for the ODT format.
Nonsence. Any change in ODF starts as a user request - in a bug tracker; then it must get a sample implementation as experimental feature; then it should be filed to ODF standards OASIS committee (where a reference implementation is a pre-requisite); and only then it could get into a version of the standard.
OK, it is nonsense. Then what is the procedure? Once again: it is not a LibreOffice bug or missing feature. It is about the file format. Where should I go? I am not a programmer and can't produce a reference implementation to send it to the OASIS (and I suspect the asker can't either).
... some strange assertions from @gabix telling not to do what was advised ...
You (rather OP) should go to the bug tracker, and file the bug. It's not a user concern why does it work that way; what concerns a user is that it doesn't work as it should: in case of features (even when they require standard change), it's "it doesn't allow me doing foo"; in case of interoperability, it's a bug like this - "it imports this file wrong!". It's up to developers to look at how to proceed; in case of e.g. import, we could consider mapping cell property to character property as interim measure.
See theseblogposts by he way.