ODF proposal for <number:fill-character> element

[Noel Power]

Hi Eike

On 15/05/12 15:54, Eike Rathke wrote:
> Hi Noel,
>
> On Thursday, 2012-05-10 20:19:17 +0100, Noel Power wrote:
>
>> lame I know, but as far as I can see ( and that's just with very
>> limited experience playing with this feature ) excel ( the one and
>> only version I checked ) seems to just insert 0..n characters as
>> needed to fill the available width. As far as I could see with some
>> quick testing left/right/center justification didn't seem to affect
>> the output when the repeat character was present in the format ( is
>> that what you mean by the adjustment you mention ? )
> Probably my bad wording..
no, just my simple mind
[...]
>
>> Do we need to cover what might happen in a word table ? ( for me I
>> would prefer to steer away from that if possible as I don't know
>> what is reasonable behaviour there )
> Same for me. I'm not aware of such a feature in Word, which doesn't mean
> anything of course. So maybe just restrict that in the proposal with
> some wording such as "for spreadsheet cells, ..."
I think that might be wise :-)
>
>> Also do we need to specify the
>> behaviour with multiple occurrences of the 'number:fill-character'
>> attributes? we did mention that in a previous discussion ( i am of
>> course ok with vague to none ;-) )
> I thought I had covered that but I didn't ...
>
> So, Thorsten, please in the proposal to the section with
>
> "
> [and list the<number:fill-character>  element as a child element of each
> of those]
> "
> add
> "
> [for each of those elements add wording that the element can occur only
> once, for example]
> This element can contain one instance of each of the following elements:
> [and add<number:fill-character>]
> "
>
is there a need to specify some tolerance ? e.g. Excel seems to accept 
the presence of multiple repeat character code(s) but only ( again in 
the one and only version I tested ) actually use the last one.

And, again that's for this!!!

Noel