Peter Hillier-Brook schrieb: > Mathias Bauer wrote: > [cut] > >>> be a major coding exercise. >> I'm not sure if I understand. Are you asking for 1/100 inch support in the >> GUI? Internally Writer will surely not be changed to support anything else >> than twips or 1/100mm. > > Perhaps I wasn't clear. The user interface is limited to 2 decimal places. In > the case of the Metric system this means users have access to 1/100th of a > millimetre, which is sufficiently small to be usable in layout design. Where > users prefer the *provided* Imperial measurement system (feet, inches etc.) > the > user interface again provides 2 decimal places of accuracy, but this is far > less > useful. 1/100th of an inch is 25.4 times larger than 1/100 th of a millimetre, > rendering accurate layout far more difficult, especially in tables where any > misalignment is compounded across rows and/or columns. For example, a 1/100th > of > an inch misalignment is probably not serious in the first row, but after 10 > rows > it becomes a 1/10 th of an inch, which is serious. > > Given that the user interface is just a simple conversion of twips to the > user's > chosen units, it would not be difficult to provide 3, or more decimal places > of > resolution in the user interface. There is no requirement to change the > internal units of Writer whatsoever: twips are more than sufficient for the > job > they perform. I think we already have nice units for you. You can use points and picas. "Point" allows to specify one decimal place and this brings you down to an accuracy of 1/720 inch. Considering your animosity against decimal units lets me think that "1/720" is much better for you than "1/100" or "1/1000". ;-)
> >> But you shouldn't underestimate the effort to support an additional metrics >> system. You have to write some code (or more a lot of), create new test cases >> and execute them, write new help content and more. I doubt that this will >> happen just to add support for another non-standard metrics system. > > Irrelevant, as explained above. Well, every change creates effort. And not only in development but also in QA, documentation etc. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
