What bugs me - but it's admittedly not a big deal - is the "feature" that forces margin, indent, etc. adjustments using the up and down arrows increment by .02". If you've got a 1.0" margin and you want a 0.75" margin, you have to type in the new margin b/c incrementing by 0.02 will never get to .75" from 1.0". OK, again, not a big deal - I'm not making a feature request - it's just a pet peeve.
Carl
PS. Sorry if you're bugged by top posting but it just seems to make much more sense to me. Much easier to read the next reply than scrolling down to wherever the next reply starts on a bottom post.
Dan Lewis wrote:
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 06:34 am, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
John Hardy wrote:What is wrong with learning to use what is already there? As I have mentioned in an earlier post, making changes in hundredths of a millimeter is the same as making a change of 0.0003937 inches by definition. I live in the US where inches, etc. are the accepted measure, but I have learned to use the metric system in OOo when I need to do so. It is not that hard when you stop worrying about converting from one system to the other. The results are always based upon how far along whatever ruler you are using that you want to move. The numbers on that ruler are important, but the names of the units associated with those numbers are not. For example, if you want to more from 3" to 5" on a ruler measured in inches, you do the same thing as if you wanted to move from 3 cm to 5 cm on a ruler measured in cm. In each case you would move from the 3 to the 5.
Hello;
There are many places where a dimension must be set, such as margins, tab stops, indents, line spacing, grid spacing, etc. But OO only provides two decimal places. This is very limiting. A simple dimension of .125" or .375" cannot be specified, ending up as .13" and .38" respectively. Forget about a sixteenth of an inch (.0625"), since it requires four decimal places. The only way to achieve higher precision is to change to millimeters or points, which are much smaller units of measurement to begin with, so two decimal places can describe a much smaller increment. But the user should be able to work in his or her preferred unit of measurement.
I would like to see as many as six decimal places. It can't be all
that hard to add this capability. Thank you.
Good thinking! This is really necessary for people who can count beyond 10:-) I'll certainly vote for any issue addressing this requirement.
Peter HB
Dan
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