>> "Jambunathan" == Jambunathan K writes: Strangely enough, I don't see your answer on gmane. > In LibreOffice, > Right click on the table->Table->Text Direction->Right-to-Left. Aha, > Now, does what you see seem right to you? Yes indeed it does!! I fiddled around with a function which converts the order of the words, not the letters in the row[1]. But this solution is better, it never occurred to me to look for such a functionality in OO (I am using AOO, because of a bug in LibreOffice concerning niqqud in hebrew) > As a side-note, the OrgOdtStyles.xml using a LibreOffice that uses en-GB > (IN). So, there could be "issues" when it is used with "other" > languages. > You will be better of creating a .ott file that uses language and > country of your choice. > See Tools->Options->Language Settings->Languages->Default Languages for Documents-> Whatever. > I have seen recommendations of using CTL->Hebrew. This I have activated of course, but this is for documents which are *generated* by OO. > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > As an experiment, look at your *Messages* buffer and see where the > exporter is loading OrgOdtStyles.xml from. In the same directory, there > would be a OrgOdtContentTemplate.xml. Look for the "OrgTable" style > spec. There is a problem. I attach parts of the *Messages* buffer. It seems he does this in a directory in /tmp/odt-1217v_I/ but the directory is already deleted, can this be? ,---- | Debug (ox-odt): Searching for OpenDocument styles files... | Debug (ox-odt): Trying /usr/share/emacs/etc/org/styles/... [2 times] | Debug (ox-odt): Trying /home/oub/.emacs.d/etc/styles/... | Debug (ox-odt): Trying /home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20130617/etc/styles/... | Debug (ox-odt): Using styles under /home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20130617/etc/styles/ | Debug (ox-odt): Searching for OpenDocument schema files... | Debug (ox-odt): Trying /usr/share/emacs/etc/org/schema/... [2 times] | Debug (ox-odt): No OpenDocument schema files installed | Using vacuous schema | LaTeX to MathML converter not available. | Formatting LaTeX using verbatim | Wrote /tmp/odt-1217v_I/meta.xml | Using vacuous schema [2 times] | Saving file /tmp/odt-1217v_I/styles.xml... | Wrote /tmp/odt-1217v_I/styles.xml | Wrote /tmp/odt-1217v_I/mimetype | Using vacuous schema | Saving file /tmp/odt-1217v_I/META-INF/manifest.xml... | Wrote /tmp/odt-1217v_I/META-INF/manifest.xml | Saving file /tmp/odt-1217v_I/content.xml... | Wrote /tmp/odt-1217v_I/content.xml | (No changes need to be saved) | Creating ODT file... | Running zip -mX0 tabler2l.odt mimetype | Running zip -rmTq tabler2l.odt . `---- > Now re-export. See whether things are OK. I am keen to test this, but right now I am stacked since I don't know where to find these style files. BTW there is another problem with table export which I will report in a different message. Uwe