Re: [office] Groups - Proposals for angle attribute values (08-03-14-angle-attribute-values.odt) (formerly 08-03-14-proposal00069) modified

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

I guess we could really always expand the definition if we get a
better idea of what the other angles mean. Fair enough.

wt

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02
- Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@sun.com> wrote:
> Hi Warren,
>
>
>  Warren Turkal wrote:
>
> > On 16.4.42 "Text Rotation Angle" why are we limiting the rotation
> > angle to only 0, 90, and 270? Shouldn't users be allowed to
> > arbitrarily rotate text (and other objects)?
> >
>
>  The attribute is only about text portions that can be rotated. The
> restrictions to the best of my knowledge exist because the purpose of the
> attribute is to give text portions a vertical alignment, rather than a
> horizontal alignment, but not to generally rotate text portions within a
> text. Which means what you can achieve with the attribute is to have a
> paragraph where the first word is lets say horizontally oriented, the 2nd
> vertically, and the third again horizontally.
>
>  While one may of cause allow to specify arbitrary angles, I don't know
> whether there is really a use case for that, and I'm only not sure what the
> implementation effort would be for such a feature, given that line breaks
> may occur in the text, line heights have to be calculated, and so on.
>
>  Graphical objects are rotated by the draw:transform attribute, and there is
> for instance also an attribute that allows to rotate the full content of a
> table cell. These support arbitrary angles.
>
>  Best regards
>
>  Michael
>
>
> >
> > wt
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:32 AM,  <michael.brauer@sun.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I've corrected the spelling error reported by Warren.
> > >  -- Mr Michael Brauer
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