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Subject: Re: [office] table:is-sub-table attribute
Hi Thomas, Thomas Zander wrote: > On Thursday 26 July 2007 12:25:37 Michael Brauer wrote: >> So, taking it all together, it seems to me that we cannot clearly say >> whether it is reasonable to deprecate the attribute or not based on use >> cases. > > Hmm; we can't come up with a usecase that clearly shows the advantages of > the feature, and removing the feature does not disable known usecases. Well, it is not that we did not find usecases. There only seem to be different evaluations of them. We further have to take into account that we are not talking about adding a feature, but about deprecating a feature that we have in the specification for more than two years now. And that even the (wrong) use case of merging cells was just an example that we provided. We don't know whether there are implementations and/or documents that use that feature already for a reasonable purpose. We only know that we did not find examples where we unanimously agree that they are good examples. Honestly, only based on the use cases we found I cannot clearly say whether I'm personally in favor of deprecating the is-sub-table attribute or not. But in this situation, I think it is a reasonable approach to correct exactly the issue that has been reported to us, and that's to my understanding the use of the is-sub-table attribute for merging cells. > > I can only conclude one thing from those two points. > > ps. I assume that nested tables are still possible without this feature. Yes. > So we are not talking about removing any real functionality. Right? No. Tables that have the is-sub-table attribute set behave differently than tables that don't have it set. One difference are the borders. Another difference is that tables that have the is-sub-table attribute set fill the entire height of the surrounding cell. This means that the last table-row gets a different height (it always fills the remaining space), what again may have an impact on text that appears vertically aligned in that row. Furthermore, the cell addresses for sub tables are different than the ones for nested tables. Best regards Michael -- Michael Brauer, Technical Architect Software Engineering StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems GmbH Nagelsweg 55 D-20097 Hamburg, Germany michael.brauer@sun.com http://sun.com/staroffice +49 40 23646 500 http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boemer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering
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