Mathias Bauer wrote:
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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.
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.
Regards
Peter HB
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