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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="UNCONFIRMED - Do not autoformat numbers in brackets"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140050#c5">Comment # 5</a>
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title="UNCONFIRMED - Do not autoformat numbers in brackets"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140050">bug 140050</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:vstuart.foote@utsa.edu" title="V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote@utsa.edu>"> <span class="fn">V Stuart Foote</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Heiko Tietze from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=140050#c4">comment #4</a>)
<span class="quote">> (In reply to V Stuart Foote from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=140050#c3">comment #3</a>)
> > Parenthesis brackets are accepted norm for the *value* input of negative
> > numbers.
>
> And that's the question here. Why? And where? Again: I understand
> parentheses as better or rather alternative indicator but this functions
> turns it around. What is the use case (beyond confusing Benjamin users) to
> convert (1) into -1?</span >
It is a standard spreadsheet number entry format, when you enter (1) you are
entering a negative 1.0
You can format Calc's display of negative numbers so entry can continue to be
represented as (1). But it is still a negative 1.0; that is what is entered.
Treating it as NAN requires use of the prepended apostrophe.</pre>
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