Just to be sure I’m not missing the reason behind:
Is it by intention that D-Sub receptacle symbols have pin 1 at the top, while plugs have pin 1 at the bottom?
KLC S4.2 - 2 says “Ports should be ordered from top to bottom”.
If the intention is to match the “signal flow” in a certain direction like “plugs are often inputs and therefore at the left”, wouldn’t it be cleaner to put pin 1 always on the top but the pins to the right for plugs?
KLC S4.2 -6 says “Output/Controlled/Driver pins should be placed on the right of a symbol”.
If it was my schematic, I’d rotate J10 about the X axis and rotate J11 about the Y axis and leave their placement, with respect to each other, the same.
The result being:
signal comes from somewhere off to the left into J10, across a small gap into J11, then off to the right.
Pin 1 would be at the top and pin 5 at the bottom in both cases.