diff --git a/gen/ui/appyrtl.css b/gen/ui/appyrtl.css
index 634370d..fa1d7df 100644
--- a/gen/ui/appyrtl.css
+++ b/gen/ui/appyrtl.css
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ ul li { background-image: url("ui/lirtl.gif");
         padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 0px}
 .portlet { border-right: none; border-left: 1px solid #5F7983 }
 .lang { margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 6px; }
-.cellGap { padding-left: 0.4em; }
+.cellGap { padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0;}
diff --git a/gen/ui/callMacro.pt b/gen/ui/callMacro.pt
index f08b8e3..fbe76c6 100644
--- a/gen/ui/callMacro.pt
+++ b/gen/ui/callMacro.pt
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
                       contextObj python: options['contextObj'];
                       tool       contextObj/getTool;
                       layoutType python:'view';
+                      lang tool/getUserLanguage;
+                      dir python: tool.getLanguageDirection(lang);
+                      dleft python: (dir == 'ltr') and 'left' or 'right';
+                      dright python: (dir == 'ltr') and 'right' or 'left';
                       phaseInfo  python: contextObj.getAppyPhases(currentOnly=True, layoutType='view');
                       phase      phaseInfo/name;">
   <metal:callMacro use-macro="python: page.macros[macroName]"/>
diff --git a/pod/xhtml2odt.py b/pod/xhtml2odt.py
index deb0805..e3668cc 100644
--- a/pod/xhtml2odt.py
+++ b/pod/xhtml2odt.py
@@ -147,8 +147,15 @@ class HtmlElement:
                         self.elem, classValue=self.classAttr)
                     if odtStyle and (odtStyle.name == 'podItemKeepWithNext'):
                         itemStyle += '_kwn'
-                env.dumpString(' %s:style-name="%s"' % (env.textNs,
-                    env.itemStyles[itemStyle]))
+                    styleName = env.itemStyles[itemStyle]
+                else:
+                    # Check if a style must be applied on 'p' tags
+                    odtStyle = env.parser.caller.findStyle('p')
+                    if odtStyle:
+                        styleName = odtStyle.name
+                    else:
+                        styleName = env.itemStyles[itemStyle]
+                env.dumpString(' %s:style-name="%s"' % (env.textNs, styleName))
             env.dumpString('>')
             self.tagsToClose.append(HtmlElement('p',{}))