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Fix #4261. Ods does nothing with the `indent` property of Alignment. The fix is easy, but not as easy as it should be. Excel treats indent as an int in some unspecified unit. Ods, on the other hand, specifies it as a float with unit (inches, ems, etc.). Since MS does not reveal what an indent unit is, I resorted to some experimentation. It appears that 1 unit is equal to 0.1043 inches. That is not a guaranteed relationship - the conversion might be non-linear, or it might be affected by external factors like font size. I think multiplying by 0.1043 is adequate for now, and unquestionably better than what we're currently doing (ignoring the property). If it breaks down at some point, we'll look at it again. BTW, Shared\Drawing uses some conversion values of 9525, which, reciprocating and sliding the decimal point along yields a value of 0.10498..., which is close but not close enough for me to use. The other property used in conjunction with indent is `text-align`, and here we have not been doing the right thing. If that property has the default value (`General`), it is treated as `start` (i.e. `left` on LTR docs and presumably `right` on RTL). This will align numbers as if they were text, which does no harm (they're still usable as numbers), but is not how LibreOffice handles them by default. Ods writer is changed to omit `text-align` when it is set to `General`, and let LibreOffice choose the appropriate alignment. These changes are for Writer only. Ods Reader support for styles remains severely lacking.
PhpSpreadsheet
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