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Subject: Re: [office] ODF Next proposal "Floating Table Positioning"
On 2009-10-28, Peter Junge wrote: > [...] > Use cases: > ---------- > Floating tables are tables in a document which are not part of the > main text flow, rather they are absolutely positioned on a specific > page allowin users increased flexibility for the layout of their > documents. > Adding the feature will also increase interoperability with both UOF > and OOXML, as they already know similar features. > [...] But Peter wrote, too: > [...] export to other formats seems to be an implementation issue. Whatever the extra functionality this proposal could provide, the UOF/OOXML interoperability is an implementation issue. Interoperability is done at the application level. Expanding the standard by adding redundant positioning attributes to content objects (such as tables) would add another batch of data denormalization, and another breach of the content-layout separation principle. As content objects, tables (just like paragraphs, sections, item lists and so on) should not be encumbered with layout-related properties. A table (like many other content objects) may be attached to a draw:frame container (which is, by design, a sized and positioned object). If additional position/size properties are needed, they should be added to frames. The same apply to the proposed "allow overlap" feature, that could be a frame attribute. Whatever the interest of the proposed feature, its application to table objects, instead of frames, should be more deeply discussed. -- Jean-Marie Gouarné Ars Aperta Partner http://arsaperta.com
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