Re: [discuss] supporting Engineering Notation in Calc (was: Upping a Priority )
It's problem # 5930 : http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5930 and has 13 votes now, including mine. Engineering notation is common enough that Calc should support it. -Lars Lars Noodén ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Keep the market open by keeping software patents out (deadline 31 Mar 2006): http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/indprop/patent/consultation_en.htm On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Liberty wrote: I have been using OOo for a few weeks now and was looking forward to completely uninstalling MSO on my home computers and at work. There is only one problem. Calc doesn't support engineering notation. Engineering notation is simular to scientific notation except that the numbers to the right of the 'e' is evenly divisble by 3. examples are: 1.23e6 12 1.99e12 222e-9 Such notation easily aligns up with terms such as kilo Mega micro and milli. It is very important for engineering. There has been a formal request to add this feature. see url http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=134025#134025 This is an old issue going back to June 2002, and has 8 votes and assigned a priority 4. This is an important issue for engineering and scientist types who deal with terms such as kilowatts and millimoles, microdynes and kilometers. What can be done to get this issue more priority and eventually fixed. Its been 4 years and a large community of spreadsheet users are being left out. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] supporting Engineering Notation in Calc (was: Upping a Priority )
Have that large community of users vote for it; this should raise the priority. :) Sincerely, Andrew Robertson derma e(r) Natural Bodycare Export Manager Ph. 805-582-2710 xt. 244 Fx. 805-582-2730 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dermae.net On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Liberty wrote: > I have been using OOo for a few weeks now and was looking forward to > completely uninstalling MSO on my home computers and at work. There is only > one problem. Calc doesn't support engineering notation. Engineering notation > is simular to scientific notation except that the numbers to the right of the > 'e' is evenly divisble by 3. examples are: > > 1.23e6 > 12 > 1.99e12 > 222e-9 > > Such notation easily aligns up with terms such as kilo Mega micro and milli. > It is very important for engineering. There has been a formal request to add > this feature. see url > http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=134025#134025 > This is an old issue going back to June 2002, and has 8 votes and assigned a > priority 4. This is an important issue for engineering and scientist types > who deal with terms such as kilowatts and millimoles, microdynes and > kilometers. What can be done to get this issue more priority and eventually > fixed. Its been 4 years and a large community of spreadsheet users are being > left out. > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] supporting Engineering Notation in Calc (was: Upping a Priority )
Andrew wrote: > Have that large community of users vote for it; this should raise the > priority. :) I was going to show the correlation between priority and votes, but all my vote search inquiries are coming back "Your query returned no results." Aargh. All of my searches are coming back with that result. ### I was going to show you the issue that at one time had the most votes, and a developer sttement that "won't fix,. works for me" and "this issue affects very few, if any people." Of course that developer is both geographically, and linguistically challenged. xan jonathon -- Ethical conduct is a vice. Corrupt conduct is a virtue. Motto of Nacarima.
Re: [discuss] supporting Engineering Notation in Calc (was: Upping a Priority )
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Jonathon Blake wrote: I was going to show the correlation between priority and votes, but all my vote search inquiries are coming back "Your query returned no results." Aargh. All of my searches are coming back with that result. ... My searches usually do that too. That's one of the reasons I ask for the URL. In this case it's : http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5930 -Lars Lars Nood�n ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Keep the market open by keeping software patents out (deadline 31 Mar 2006): http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/indprop/patent/consultation_en.htm - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] supporting Engineering Notation in Calc (was: Upping a Priority )
LOL! Ok, I retract my statement. Hehe! Thanks for letting me know; if voting truly has such little impact on priority, then I probably won't end up voting much. Hehe! Perhaps nagging works better? >:-) Sincerely, Andrew Robertson derma e(r) Natural Bodycare Export Manager Ph. 805-582-2710 xt. 244 Fx. 805-582-2730 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dermae.net -Original Message- From: Jonathon Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 11:29 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [discuss] supporting Engineering Notation in Calc (was: Upping a Priority ) Andrew wrote: > Have that large community of users vote for it; this should raise the > priority. :) I was going to show the correlation between priority and votes, but all my vote search inquiries are coming back "Your query returned no results." Aargh. All of my searches are coming back with that result. ### I was going to show you the issue that at one time had the most votes, and a developer sttement that "won't fix,. works for me" and "this issue affects very few, if any people." Of course that developer is both geographically, and linguistically challenged. xan jonathon -- Ethical conduct is a vice. Corrupt conduct is a virtue. Motto of Nacarima. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
