Notes from 1 March 2021 ODF TC meeting

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

Minutes from our 1 March 2021 ODF TC teleconference are below.

Hope everyone is at the start of a great week!

Patrick

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Patrick: Sorry for the bad paste, I've befouled my keyboard settings on
a Greek project. ï But, at least I still has ASCII for the meeting notes!
Patrick: We have quorum
Patrick: Agenda - Regina - want to address the proposal template take up
before #4
Patrick: Before Regina - FYI on Daylight Savings time
Patrick: agenda - with those changes - approved by consent
Patrick: Minutes of 22 February 2021 - approved by consent
US clocks "spring forward" on Sunday, March 14th.

European clocks follow suit on Sunday, March 28th.
Patrick: - dates from Chet
Patrick: Keep meetings at NOON -
Patrick: Keep the correct time link for the meeting - Regina -
Regina Henschel:
https://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/ProposalTemplate%20ODF%201.4
Svante Schubert: Suggestion for previous time topic: March 1 and March
29 (incl. NY)
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021&month=3&day=1&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=25&p2=37&p3=179
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021&month=3&day=29&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=25&p2=37&p3=179
Patrick: Proposal Template Incremental
Proposal Template Incremental
Patrick: Not for discussion this week - set for next week
Svante Schubert: I love Reginas approach. Enabling the feature based
review and fast agile round-trip to an OASIS committee specification.
Patrick: Andreas - export and import to ODF - features are agnostic to
ODF - never really a question of ODF -
Svante Schubert: Making the intermediate XML until an OASIS/ISO standard
is being published unnecessary. Allow fast review & adoption.
Patrick: Regina - before export to ODF - define an attribute in gnumeric
namespace -
Patrick: Svante - applications should not use ODF namespace - fast track
for new features -
Patrick: Andreas - in the past - someone has to have implemented it -
for feature to be considered
Michael Stahl: to Andreas: the reason we always said we only want to add
things that have already been implemented is that we don't want to add
features to ODF that later turn out to be too difficult or impossible to
implement in an interoperable way; i don't see this risk with the
proposed workflow because we get immediate feedback from implementers
Svante Schubert: The advantage could be to activate the developer to do
work according to the wishes of the TC: test documents, XML design.
Instead of talking to the developer, when his task was already done (and
is not much willing to changed a finsihed task).
Patrick: Set Regina's template for discussion - 8 March 2021
Patrick: Michael - feedback process back to developers is too long from
the standards process -
Patrick: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/OFFICE-3843
Patrick: We need to describe how a border works with a shadow -
Patrick: Regina - need a marker of the position of the text with regard
to the shadow
Svante Schubert: Regina: No decision how the text outside of the border
is drawn with the shadow. Unclear if text behind the shadow or overlapping?
Patrick: marker -> margin
Svante Schubert: Regina: To descripe this we likely need a margin to
position the content related to the shadow
Svante Schubert: Regina: Current implementations are using overlapping
of shadow & content
Patrick: Michael - shadows have margins
Svante Schubert: ^NOT overlap (only CSS do overlapping)
Regina Henschel: What should happen with nested spans? text <span> some
text <span> other text </span> text </span> outside
Patrick: Michael - inner one should override the outer ones
Svante Schubert: Nested text:span are just a syntax feature, but it just
equal to split up spans on one level.
Patrick: 6.1.7 The <text:span> element represents the application of a
style to the character data of a portion of text. The content of this
element is the text which uses that text style.

The <text:span> element can be nested.The <text:span> element represents
the application of a style to the character data of a portion of text.
The content of this element is the text which uses that text style.

The <text:span> element can be nested.
Patrick: overrides is only on the conflicting sub-span
Patrick: Francis - flattening has 3 boxes - outer span , inner span ,
outer span, if any
Patrick: Andreas - display of multiple spans with same properties is not
defined.
Patrick: possible bug in 1.3

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Patrick Durusau
patrick@durusau.net
Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)

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