RE: [office] Data Grid Size element proposal

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow@math.concordia.ab.ca>]

On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 08:51 -0800, Doug Mahugh wrote:
> Warren,
> 
>  
> 
> By heuristics, are you referring to client code like this?
> 
>    if (number-columns-repeated == col-max) then 
> 
>        {extend or shrink formatting to current client's maximum
> columns}
> 
>  
> 
> I’d call that deterministic myself, but what would you prefer?  
> 
> As Florian said, something like
> table:number-columns-repeated="MAX_COLS" would not be backwards
> compatible with existing ODF 1.1 readers.
> 
> I’m open to anything that addresses the issue, preferably without
> introducing a breaking change.
> 

I am wondering whether something like table:grid-size doesn't also have
repercussions on evaluation of formulae. Imagine a formula that refers
to a cell location outside the current grid. What happens is this
formula suddenly finds itself in a larger grid?

Andreas