Re: [office] FO properties

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

Hi,

On 11/08/08 20:56, Patrick Durusau wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I am working on incorporating the rest of the Sun team and other 
> comments into the next draft.
> 
> One item of particular concern is that we don't generally support the 
> value "inherit" for any FO attributes.

That is not specific to FO attributes. This also applies to those SVG 
attributes that are "properties" in SVG terminology. Most of them do 
also support a value "inherit" that ODF does not support.
> 
> Whether we should or not in some future release is not of present concern.
> 
> What is of concern is whether we should place all FO attributes in a 
> separate section so we can make general statements about all FO 
> attributes and not have to repeat where we don't support values, like 
> inherit for any FO attribute.

My suggestion would be to move all ODF formatting properties into 
separate section. We may then add a general statement about FO and SVG 
formatting properties, but the specification also gets clearer regarding 
what is a formatting property, and what is an attribute to an element.

Best regards

Michael


> 
> There are other values that we don't support for particular values but 
> those will be noted on those particular attributes.
> 
> I can't think of another value that we systematically don't support for 
> FO attributes but I would like to avoid having to repeat that we don't 
> support inherit time after time on attributes.
> 
> Realize this will change the section numbers from the current draft but 
> I would rather do that now than after we have a public draft out for 
> review.
> 
> My leaning is towards simply biting the bullet and doing the section for 
> all FO attributes but I don't have to do it now while TC members are 
> reviewing it. I can do that right before we send out a version for 
> public review.
> 
> Thoughts/suggestions?
> 
> Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
> 
> Patrick
> 


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