Seasons Greetings to all,
I am sending this to both lists because I'm not sure which group this
issue really belongs to since it has xml Writer format properties but is
also a development issue I think. If most of you folks who are regulars
here monitor both lists just let me know and I'll send any further
messages to one list or the other.
Another question please
In a table (#1) I've generated, the following is created by Writer
when I File | Save:
<style:table-column-properties style:column-width="51.01mm"
style:rel-column-width="65535*"/>
and in a table (#2) I get:
<style:table-column-properties style:column-width="50.01mm"
style:rel-column-width="32767*"/>
and in a third (#3) this:
<style:table-column-properties style:column-width="50.01mm"
style:rel-column-width="32768*"/>
I did not generate the */style/:rel-column-width*,* *only the
style:column-width property.
* *So how is this number calculated? What is it /rel/ative to? I'm
assuming it's called that because it's the column width relative to
something. The values are all different even though the
style:column-width is the same. I could find no documentation on this
element in the odt spec or anywhere else for that matter. Can anyone
provide some knowledge transfer please? It would be much appreciated.
If anyone is interested, what I'm doing is, from xml data via several
xslt stylesheets generating all the individual files needed by an
OpenOffice Writer document dependent on what objects are in it, e.g.
formulae, images, tables, etc. Then using the java zip class in a rhino
javascript extension function (I'm using the Xalan xslt processor), I
zip the files together to produce a Writer document. It works quite
well, except that a few areas seem murky such as with equation settings
(which I mentioned in another e-mail) and the issue I describe here.
Peace to you,
Matthew L. Avizinis
Gleim Publications, Inc.
