Calc / Kerning

[Kohei Yoshida]

On 11/15/2012 04:09 PM, Bernhard Schiffner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (this is my first commit here so please be patient ...)
>
> I'am missing the kerning feature for cells showing the result of a formula.

So, there is a technical reason why achieving that for formula result is 
very difficult, I'm afraid.

Calc has two types of texts: 1) simple text, and 2) rich text.  A simple 
non-formula cell can do either text, but a formula cell currently can 
only do simple text.  When you type e.g. AV into a cell, that is simple 
text at the time the text is entered.  As soon as you apply kerning, 
though, it becomes rich text.  When you reference that in another cell 
via formula cell, that formula cell only extract that text as a simple 
text, thereby losing the kerning property.

This is due to the same reason why referencing in a formula cell a text 
that consists of part bold, part non-bold, part italic, part non-italic 
etc. becomes simple text without any format runs.

Of course, it is *possible* to support rich text properties in text 
that's a formula result, but that would require intimate knowledge of 
the inner working of Calc's cell text handling, and would probably 
requires a lot of code changes.

Best,

Kohei