[Bug 159047] Calc: make possible Font spacing of formula results

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159047

--- Comment #4 from ady <adylo811517 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
> You mean A1 "=1234/567" should display "2 , 1 7 6 3"? What use case do you
> cover with character spacing on numbers? Another question is whether ODF
> supports such formatting.

FWIW, formulas are usually about numbers, but not always.

Regarding the presentation of cells' content, if there is a use case and valid
reason to show a different character spacing for a non-formula cell, why
wouldn't be a similar use case and valid reason for the results of a formula?

The ability to change the character spacing of non-formula cells might be just
a side effect, since that possibility is not a feature on the cell but on the
input box of the formula bar.

So maybe the request should rather be to have the character spacing setting
available (also) in the Format Cells dialogue(?). Several possible places come
to mind (although, I am saying this as a common user, so from a technical POV
the following might not be acceptable):

* Format Cells > Font (tab) > Features (button) 
* Format Cells > Font Effects (tab) 
* Format Cells > Alignment (tab) (which already influences related presentation
attributes.

There would be still a remaining problem: how such characteristic of the_cell_
would interact with the character spacing of the input box characters,
considering that the latter already influences the presentation on non-formula
cells.

Additionally, there are text functions, so, it should be possible to add space
(characters) in between each character of the content of another cell. It is
not the same thing as the request in this report, but it is available already,
and using a font that would normally have more spacing could help too.

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