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

["Warren Turkal" <turkal@google.com>]

Here's the error I found in the angles proposal.

wt

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Warren Turkal <turkal@google.com> wrote:
> Michael,
>
>  I believe that "radients" should be radians in the description of the
>  angle type. Otherwise, it looks okay to me.
>
>  I have also have a quick question for everyone. Is there a tool for
>  producing the kind of "diff" of the document to which Michael linked?
>  It was really nicely formatted.
>
>  [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle#Units
>
>  wt
>
>
>
>  On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02
>  - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@sun.com> wrote:
>  > Dear TC members,
>  >
>  >  please find at
>  >
>  >  http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/download.php/27585/08-03-14-angle-attribute-values.odt
>  >
>  >  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".
>  >
>  >  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.
>  >
>  >  SVG does not allow angle unit identifiers in its path and transform
>  >  attributes. I suggest that we take over that, too.
>  >
>  >  Best regards
>  >
>  >  Michael
>  >
>  >
>  >  [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/types.html#BasicDataTypes
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
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