Re: opendocument spec notes and other

Hi Alberto,

Alberto Berti wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i'm new to this list, i'm creating a reST (http://docutils.sf.net) to 
> open document converter and during my analisys of the spec and ooo 2 
> (beta) i've accumulated some questions i want to ask you and some notes 
> about the spec.
> 
> First the spec's document bugs :-)
> 
> At page 604 is written:
> 
>   15.10 Table Row Formatting Properties
> 
>   The properties described in this section can be contained within table
>   column styles (see section
>   14.12.3) They are contained in a <style:table-column-properties>
>   element.
> 
> This paragraph really should be:
> 
>   The properties described in this section can be contained within table
>   row styles (see section
>   14.12.3) They are contained in a <style:table-row-properties>
>   element.
> 
> a similar error is located at page 605 in Table cell properties paragraph.

Thank for the error reports.
> 
> There is a small issue with table names in OOO 2, the OOOWriter 
> complains if the table name contains spaces, even if the spec says that 
> table:name attribute is of type "string" which can contain spaces i think

Actually, an OpenDocument implementation may have constrains that are 
not part of the specifiaction. That's the case here.

> 
> my notes ends here for the moment.. i saw some other errors in the spec 
> but i forgot where they are :-/
> 
> My first question is why even if table styles exists since version 1.1.x 
> ,they are completely absent from the GUI. Anyone knows why? The good 
> support of styles in ooo2 let an user that is opening a document apply 
> his personal or corporate styles, but he can stylize tables only one by 
> one applying a custom format with the AutoFormat feature :-(

OOo does not have Table styles at all. It only supports hard formatting 
of tables. However, in the OpenDocument format, hard attributes are 
converted into styles.
> 
> The last question is if it's really impossible to use "em" measure unit 
> as stated in xsl-fo spec? Using em can be really useful for paragraph 
> indents and list indents.

"em" in fact is not supported.

> 
> Thanks in advance for your attention and thanks for this grat piece of 
> work!

Thanks

Michael
> 
> Alberto
> 
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