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Notes from March 27, 2023 - ODF Teleconference

  • 1.  Notes from March 27, 2023 - ODF Teleconference

    Posted 03-27-2023 17:02
    Greetings! Notes from the ODF Teleconference today follow below. Hope everyone is at the start of a great week! Patrick ******************************* *Patrick:* quorum - yes *Patrick:* Regina has questions about colors - add to end of the agenda after #5 *Patrick:* with that addition - agenda approved by consent *Patrick:* minutes from March 20th - accepted by consent *Patrick:* 4. covered status of ODF 1.3 *Patrick:* Bottom to top, left to right writing direction - https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/OFFICE-4030 *Patrick:* Regina - start on page 9 of last attachment (6) *Regina Henschel:* If page has a vertical writing-mode and the section has set a horizontal writing mode, what should happen? *Patrick:* Michael - layout environments change *Patrick:* Micheal is vert a property on tables or cells *Svante:* https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/202303/msg00022.html *Patrick:* Section - only about layout of columns, not writing direction - do we want to restrict writing direction on columns to its layout - and not its content *Michael Stahl:* apparently in LO Writer there are 2 different kinds of layout environments: 1. page and frame allow all hori/vert writing modes 2. paragraph/section/table allow only hori modes with the effect that if they are contained in something that's vertical it just flips the columns/character but does not become actually horizontal *Patrick:* Regina - separate writing mode for content - at the table cell *Michael Stahl:* apparently DOCX has w:textDirection on section, table cell (not table) and paragraph *Patrick:* Regina - colors - ODF only has RGB with hex notation - *Patrick:* Regina - in practice - we need colors from OOXML - idea was to introduce the possibly to use different color notations - but also sub-colors *Patrick:* Regina - define an attribute with color definition to use and attribute with the string to use in that notation *Patrick:* Regina - will write some examples in an email - would it be a closed list of types? or namespaced string? Comments on it *Patrick:* Regina - main purpose is to bring OOXML feature into ODF - -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau Attachment: OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature