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Subject: Re: [office] Groups - Proposals for angle attribute values (08-03-14-angle-attribute-values.odt) (formerly 08-03-14-proposal00069) modified
I guess we could really always expand the definition if we get a better idea of what the other angles mean. Fair enough. wt On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@sun.com> wrote: > Hi Warren, > > > Warren Turkal wrote: > > > On 16.4.42 "Text Rotation Angle" why are we limiting the rotation > > angle to only 0, 90, and 270? Shouldn't users be allowed to > > arbitrarily rotate text (and other objects)? > > > > The attribute is only about text portions that can be rotated. The > restrictions to the best of my knowledge exist because the purpose of the > attribute is to give text portions a vertical alignment, rather than a > horizontal alignment, but not to generally rotate text portions within a > text. Which means what you can achieve with the attribute is to have a > paragraph where the first word is lets say horizontally oriented, the 2nd > vertically, and the third again horizontally. > > While one may of cause allow to specify arbitrary angles, I don't know > whether there is really a use case for that, and I'm only not sure what the > implementation effort would be for such a feature, given that line breaks > may occur in the text, line heights have to be calculated, and so on. > > Graphical objects are rotated by the draw:transform attribute, and there is > for instance also an attribute that allows to rotate the full content of a > table cell. These support arbitrary angles. > > Best regards > > Michael > > > > > > wt > > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:32 AM, <michael.brauer@sun.com> wrote: > > > > > I've corrected the spelling error reported by Warren. > > > -- Mr Michael Brauer > > > > > > Information about the document named Proposals for angle attribute > values > > > (08-03-14-angle-attribute-values.odt) (formerly 08-03-14-proposal00069) > has > > > been modified by Mr Michael Brauer. > > > > > > Document Description: > > > > > > > > > View Document Details: > > > > http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/document.php?document_id=27996 > > > > > > Download Document: > > > > http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/download.php/27996/08-03-14-angle-attribute-values.odt > > > > > > > > > PLEASE NOTE: If the above links do not work for you, your email > application > > > may be breaking the link into two pieces. You may be able to copy and > paste > > > the entire link address into the address field of your web browser. > > > > > > -OASIS Open Administration > > > > > > > > > > > -- > 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 >
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