Hi Frédéric, On Tuesday, 2009-03-17 20:07:46 -0400, Frédéric Courchesne wrote:
> I am looking for engineering notation in Calc for about 5 years!!! > Issue 5930 has been opened in 2002 and is not closed yet: > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5930 > > I would like to participate and do my best to implement this feature. Welcome! Scratching the own itch is the best one can do :-) > I am actually reading the developer's guide to help me get started. The Developer's Guide might be overkill for implementing this feature ... > If > you have any advice where I should look first (in source code), feel > free to respond! The number formatter source is in svtools/source/numbers/ The format code scanner (zforscan.cxx) would had to detect the special usage of leading # characters in scientific format codes, and the formatter (zformat.cxx) create the display string accordingly. However, there's one obstacle: the property couldn't be stored in the current ODF file format, if I'm not mistaken. That would need an accepted proposal for one of the next OASIS committee drafts, but the TC is busy with getting ODF 1.2 ready. Eike -- OOo/SO Calc core developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. SunSign 0x87F8D412 : 2F58 5236 DB02 F335 8304 7D6C 65C9 F9B5 87F8 D412 OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't send personal mail to the [email protected] account, which I use for mailing lists only and don't read from outside Sun. Use [email protected] Thanks.
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