David,
thanky you very much for your suggestions. The TC will have a look at it
for one of its next drafts.
Best regards
Michael Brauer
OASIS Open Office TC chair
wrote:
> Comment from:
>
> Should there be 45-degree or polar coordinate glue points?
>
> Section 9.2.18 describes glue points for
> connectors, and specifies that there
> are 4 standard glue points
> (basically North, South, East, West).
>
> But should there also be "standard" glue points
> for 45-degree connections (NE, SE, NW, SW)?
> These are fairly common in drawings
> using connectors.
>
> For circular objects (circles, ellipses), the
> Position representation of 45-degree points
> is almost always a compromise.
> For a unit circle you want
> x="cos(45degrees)" y="sin(45degrees)"
> which can't be precisely represented
> (the "best" representation will work
> well enough, but will be confusing to read
> later).
>
> A more general (though more complicated)
> representation might be to also permit
> glue point representations to
> use (angle, range) to define a point.
> This is basically a polar representation.
> Perhaps it would also be useful to be able to
> specify just the "angle", to represent
> "longest distance in the shape,
> where angle is measured in degrees (this is
> useful when shapes have many points and are
> connected with splines).
>
> E.g.: direction="45" range="1"
>
> This is definitely more of a "wish list" item,
> but I thought you might want to think about it.
> If not for version 1, you could at least note
> that "future versions may add..." if you
> think it might be added in the future.
>
>
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