[Libreoffice] [PATCH] Frac function in calc/BASIC

[August Sodora]

Interesting, I'll take a look at those documents. I had actually
initially thought that adding something to the BASIC language would be
more controversial than adding a calc cell function :) Has there been
any discussion on where these types of additions should go in the
past?

August Sodora
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Regina Henschel
<rb.henschel at t-online.de> wrote:
> Hi August,
>
> August Sodora schrieb:
>>
>> I came across this feature request today and decided to try my hand at
>> it. Is the attached patch an appropriate solution?
>>
>
> I understand now, that you will do BASIC and CALC at the same time.
>
> For CALC there are some problems. A function FRAC is not defined in ODF1.2
> [1]. So it has to be written different. For OOo that has been
> org.openoffice.style (for example). But I'm not sure, whether the same
> should be done for LO, or whether it should be org.libreoffice, or more
> general org.documentfoundation.
>
> The new function need to be known to the function wizard, see [2] chapter 3.
>
> [1] http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/
> [2]
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Calc/Implementation/Spreadsheet_Functions
>
> Kind regards
> Regina
>