Re: [office] Clarification for frame formatting propertystyle:flow-with-text

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

On Fri, 2007-19-10 at 08:30 +0200, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software
Engineer - Sun Microsystems wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> I want to ask you, if you can give your answer to Michael's question.
> As it turned out that the used wording and terms causes confusion, I 
> think it would be helpful, if we have your answer here.

Hi,

Michael was completely correct with his understanding of my
interpretation of the term clipping. [I think this term has been around
with this meaning at least since I first worked in computer graphics in
the late seventies. So I thought the term had a standard meaning.] 

Andreas

> 
> Michael Brauer wrote:
> > Andreas, Oliver,
> > 
> > I'm not sure if you use the same definition of "to clip".
> > 
> > Andreas: I think for you it does mean that one those parts of an object 
> > are painted that are within the bounds of the table cell. That is, the 
> > object's position is not touched. If the object does not fit into the 
> > table cell, it is only partially visible, or not visible at all. Is that 
> > correct?
> > 
> > Oliver: I think for you "to clip" means that the object is forced to 
> > stay within the table cell, either by enlarging the table cell, or maybe 
> > (I'm not sure) by adapting its position. Is that correct?
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
> 
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