Re: [office] Proposals for attributes that take angle values

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

You are right. There is "grad" in English, and SVG even has it as a unit 
(which means ODF may have it in the futue, too). But since the attribute 
descriptions in question have been authored by a German native speaker, 
I'm sure that was really meant were degrees in this case.

Michael

robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> There is something called a "grad" in English, which is defined as 
> 1/400th of a circle.  Maybe you call it "gradian" or "gon" in Europe.  I 
> don't know if anyone actually uses this anymore.  I remember seeing it 
> on calculators many years ago.
> 
> Anyone know?
> 
> -Rob
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> *Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>*
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> Dear TC members,
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> please find at
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> http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/download.php/27585/08-03-14-angle-attribute-values.odt
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> a list of proposals that, as already discussed, add angle unit
> identifiers to attribute values that specify angles.
> 
> The documents lists all attributes that specify an angle, even if no
> change is required. That is, the document contains a complete list of
> attributes that define angle values (unless I have overseen one).
> 
> Where the ODF specification did already specify the unit of an angle,
> this is degrees. Sections 9.5.5.6 and 9.5.8.5 mention "grad", but this
> seems to be a wrong translation of the German term "grad", which is the
> English "degrees".
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> In SVG's angle data type[1], the angle unit identifier is optional and
> the default is degrees. I suggest that we take over that behavior. It
> matches well to our current definitions of angle values, and allows
> backward compatibility with ODF1.1 documents.
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> SVG does not allow angle unit identifiers in its path and transform
> attributes. I suggest that we take over that, too.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Michael
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/types.html#BasicDataTypes
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Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering