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Subject: Re: [office-comment] Support for overlined text in ODF
Martin, Great example of how to make a request for a feature. I particularly liked your rationale section. When you said that ODF support overlining as a font attribute I take it that does not satisfy the need to overline non-continguous strings of text? That is there is not overline for a spacing character in most fonts. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick Martin Whitaker wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on an enhancement to OpenOffice.org (OOo) that adds > support for > overlined text. As part of this work, I need a way to save the overlined > attribute in an ODF file. At present ODF does not support overlining as > a text style (although it does support overlining as a font attribute). > I would therefore like to propose that this capability be added to ODF. > I suggest this would be best done by adding the following attributes: > > style:text-overline-type > style:text-overline-style > style:text-overline-width > style:text-overline-color > style:text-overline-mode > > with syntax and semantics copied from the similarly named underline > attributes. > > As rationale for why ODF should support overlined text, the following > uses have been identified by OOo users who have voted for this > enhancement: > > 1) In Boolean algebra, an overline is used to denote negation (i.e. > logical inversion). > > 2) In digital electronics, an overline is used to denote an active > low signal. > > 3) In high energy physics, an overline is used to denote an antiparticle. > > 4) In older West European texts, an overline is used to denote an > abbreviation. > > 5) Overlines are used in sign language transcriptions. > > Overlines also appear to be used in CJK languages, although I don't > know enough about this to comment on whether OOo's current approach of > subverting the underline tag for this purpose is appropriate. > > In most of the above cases, the overline attribute is applied to a > word, so using a combining overline character is awkward and causes > problems for search and replace (besides which, most fonts don't > include a combining overline character). > > I know of two other word processor applications that support overlined > text: Adobe FrameMaker and AbiWord. AbiWord also supports ODF import > and export, so adding these attributes would not just benefit OOo. > > Finally, a few supporting quotes from other OOo users (taken from > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5991): > > "Unfortunately, one absolutely critical > there-is-no-other-convention-for-doing-this ability we have to have > in even the most basic sign language transcriptions is overline text." > > "It's an issue with mathematical texts as well. It is no way a feature > for luxury publishing products, but it is a basic > need-it-to-get-my-work-done-feature." > > "This isn't a "magic" feature, it's a standard text-font convention for > a number of common documentation types: logic, finite mathematics, > electronic specifications, etc. > > An example: JEDEC's Software Tools Committee would adopt OO.o as our > standard document format for editable specifications in a heartbeat if > we could just flag active-low signals properly." > > > Martin Whitaker > > This publicly archived list offers a means to provide input to the > OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC. > > In order to verify user consent to the Feedback License terms and > to minimize spam in the list archive, subscription is required > before posting. > > Subscribe: office-comment-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > Unsubscribe: office-comment-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > List help: office-comment-help@lists.oasis-open.org > List archive: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/ > Feedback License: http://www.oasis-open.org/who/ipr/feedback_license.pdf > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > Committee: > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office > > > > -- Patrick Durusau Patrick@Durusau.net Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!
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