Re: [office] Proposals for attributes that take angle values

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Re: [office] Proposals for attributes that take angle values
There is something called a "grad"
in English, which is defined as 1/400th of a circle.  Maybe you call
it "gradian" or "gon" in Europe.  I don't know
if anyone actually uses this anymore.  I remember seeing it on calculators
many years ago.

Anyone know?

-Rob

Michael Brauer - Sun Germany
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[office] Proposals for attributes that
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Dear TC members,

please find at

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/download.php/27585/08-03-14-angle-attribute-values.odt

a list of proposals that, as already discussed, add angle unit

identifiers to attribute values that specify angles.

The documents lists all attributes that specify an angle, even if no

change is required. That is, the document contains a complete list of

attributes that define angle values (unless I have overseen one).

Where the ODF specification did already specify the unit of an angle,

this is degrees. Sections 9.5.5.6 and 9.5.8.5 mention "grad",
but this

seems to be a wrong translation of the German term "grad", which
is the

English "degrees".

In SVG's angle data type[1], the angle unit identifier is optional and

the default is degrees. I suggest that we take over that behavior. It

matches well to our current definitions of angle values, and allows

backward compatibility with ODF1.1 documents.

SVG does not allow angle unit identifiers in its path and transform

attributes. I suggest that we take over that, too.

Best regards

Michael

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/types.html#BasicDataTypes

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