On 2005-06-28 23:54:39, Peter Kupfer OOo wrote:
Chris Quirke wrote:
At 07:11 AM 28/6/2005, you wrote:
>> Just doing a quick, I think you are doing more work than it is
worth.
Each component has the setting in the same place.
*Tools > Options > Text Document > General*
*Tools > Options > Spreadsheet > General*
*Tools > Options > Presentation > General*
*Tools > Options > Draw > General*
Let's have a look... starting OOO word processor, Tools, Options...
- text document, General x 1
- text document, View x 2
- HTML document, View x 3
- spreadsheet, General x 1
- spreadsheet, View x 0
- presentation, General x 1
- presentation, View x 0
- drawing, General x 1
- drawing, View x 0
- formula, OK
- chart, OK
- data, OK
By jove you're right. I jumped the gun on that one. That is freaking
crazy!
While it would be really nice in some cases to be able (if one chose)
to be able to set the basic unit of measure in one single point, it's
also convenient to have it set separately for all the programs...
Perhaps under a new sub-menu, Tools>Openoffice.org>Units (or some
such). With maybe a check box for set all units the same here OR set
them all separately OR set them here and only set the exceptions in the
other menus, etc. OTOH, I do docs in inches and presentations in
millimeters. (a required standard)
One thing that makes me think that setting them from the locale,
however, is the question of whether setting it in one place
(automatically or manually) might be the best solution for the average
user, but would it mess up anything for the user whose needs were not
"mainstream".
<ASIDE>
Then there is the size of the unit of measure, itself. As I have
mentioned in a couple of previous posts, I used to be in charge of the
care and feeding of some pretty large composition/typesetting systems
at a commercial typesetting house. (and had to write bidirectional
translators for them. what *was* I thinking...)
And this was in the the US, so the locale would be inches ... yeah
right.
We had points, picas, ciceros, millimeters, inches, and one more whose
name escapes me at the moment (.0411 mm = 1 'something-or-other') for a
start. Adding to the confusion, at least 2 of the systems used 72.27
"points" to the inch, while one did something like 67.5 "points" (didot
points maybe?) to the inch. Yet two others did EXACTLY 72 points to
the inch (I believe that this is what postscript uses today).
And ALL of them called the measure "points". (BTW, which 'point' does
OOo use?)
</ASIDE>
So setting the units "automatically" from the OS might work in the
general case. But somehow, I hope it doesn't go there.
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