[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]
Subject: Re: [office] Groups - Comparison of default styles (default-styles.ods) uploaded
I think that the most common units should be supported in the format. I not sure that it should be necessary for folks generating documents to have to make sure they are doing appropriate unit conversions. However, I could be convinced either way. wt On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@sun.com> wrote: > Ming Fei Jia wrote: > > It seems most of values use "in" instead of "cm" as unit for length. > > You are right. But at least in OpenOffice.org, the measurement unit that > is used in ODF depends on the measurement unit that is selected for the > UI. If measures are displayed in inch, then the unit that is used in ODF > is "in". If measures are displayed in "cm", then "cm" are used in ODF. > That means that it depends on the unit setting in the UI that was > active when saving the defaults whether they are stored in inch or cm. > We could also use only inch, or only cm, if we want. > > So, the question is actually what the preferred measurement unit for an > international standard would be, or if there is such a preference at all. > > Related to this is the question whether and how we define defaults for > those properties that may have locale dependent values. I have suggested > already that we don't specify defaults for the page size, because there > are at least Legal and A4 paper dimensions. Assuming A4 as default won't > work very well for countries that usually use only Legal paper, and vice > versa. However, there seem to be several properties that depend on the > paper dimensions. Like the margins, where I assume that other margins > are reasonable for a Legal page than for an A4 page. The same applies to > the dimensions of headers and footers. And even for the default tab stop > distance I believe that another values is reasonable for countries that > use the metric system than for those that use English units. > > 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: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boemer > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that > generates this mail. You may a link to this group and all your TCs in OASIS > at: > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php > >
[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]