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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 2 14:58:02 +0000 2008 ------- Not all OpenOffice users are also Excel users (or users of other spreadsheets). Many of them have used calculators for which the rule is the conventional (and more common across software) mathematical one: -x^y is -(x^y). So, when the user types (or copy-pastes) such a formula, OpenOffice should rather interpret it as -(x^y); there could possibly be a configuration option to support both interpretations. To avoid any ambiguity, OpenOffice should output explicit parentheses in both cases. Concerning file formats, just use the specifications when reading or writing spreadsheet files. When writing files, adding explicit parentheses could also be safer, in particular wrt 3rd-party applications that could easily interpret formulas in the wrong way. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
