Wangshanpo wrote:
Thanks for the input Dan, and for your encouragement for me to broaden
and develop my intelligence. The point you are missing here is that I
and many others prefer to work in inches - not that we are incapable of
thinking outside some prescribed boundary. In every other area of my
life I use inch measurements. OpenOffice developers have seen fit to
include inches as an option, it seems reasonable therefore that
potential users of inches should have minor irritations addressed. If
other wordprocessors permit extended decimal point use, then why
shouldn't the world's greatest?
Dan Lewis wrote:
Bravo! Why some people think that those of us who prefer to use Imperial
measures are in some way incapable using the more simplistic metric
system is beyond me.
For what it's worth, I experimented today and concluded that rounding
errors in the presentation layer are at the root of the problems with 2
decimal places. If one constructs a template using the metric system, or
typographical points, to achieve the required document accuracy and then
reverts to Imperial measures in the Options dialogues, the accuracy
remains in the template, even though the displayed, rounded, Imperial
dimensions are incorrectly calculated.
From this it follows that a fix would be trivial to implement, if we
could only persuade our metric using developers to do it:-)
Peter HB
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