Dear TC members,
finally after the solution of my problems to post to the mailing list I
can post the information I have already given in yesterday's TC call.
Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - Sun Microsystems wrote:
> Dear TC members,
>
>
> I would like to propose the following extension for ODF 1.2:
>
> Allow vertical relations "page" and "page-content" for anchor types
> "paragraph" and "char" - see "Table 16 - Vertical Relation values" in
> ODF 1.2 specification, draft 7, second edition - file
> "OpenDocument-v1.2-v7-02.odt".
>
> These vertical position combination are possible in OpenOffice.org
> since version 2.0.
> They are needed to have objects (text frames, graphics, embedded
> objects and drawing objects) anchor to a certain content (paragraph or
> character), but be vertical positioned relative to the page areas.
> E.g., a graphic explaining a certain word of a paragraph always
> vertical positioned at the bottom of the page, on which the word is
> on.
>
Some word about the backward compatibility of my proposed extension:
There exist no backward compatibility issue regarding the ODF schema.
The current restriction that certain vertical relations are only allowed
for certain anchor types is expressed in prose not in any XML or related
formal language.
Applications, which only support ODF 1.0 or ODF 1.1, can in general not
handle the new proposed combinations of vertical relation and anchor
type. I assume that these applications will fall back to an application
dependent default combination of vertical relation and anchor type. From
my point of view the expected impact on the rendered document in an only
ODF 1.0/1.1 supporting application is, that the object is not at the
same position as in an ODF 1.2 supporting application. I do not expect
any data loss.
Best regards, Oliver.
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