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------- Additional comments from paulwolstenho...@openoffice.org Wed Dec 15 19:53:47 +0000 2010 ------- Let's not confuse the idea of encoding engineering format in a calc file (using 1000's grouping) with the issue of expressing engineering format in OOo's equivalent to what excel describes as a 'custom code' string. It would be confusing to make the user enter a comma in the format string just because we have a (temporary?) situation that encodes his intention in a similar manner to 1000's grouping. It is consistent with the existing symbol definitions to express standard engineering format as ##0.00E+00 since the # indicates the possible presence of a digit with leading 0 supression. Do we need to support leading zeros with engineering format? I do not think so. Excel allows #00.00E+00 and 000.00E+00 to express engineering notation (i.e. the exponent a multiple of 3) with a minimum of 2 or 3 digits before the decimal point (i.e. leading zeros) and it does implement it. Not wishing to be sexist, I might suggest that a user of this format could be an extremely strange girl or guy ;) Perhaps a reasonable compromise here is to accept the code #00.00E+00 and show 1234 as 001.23E+03 (because I can't imagine a need to supress the first leading zero but not the second). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sc.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sc.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
