OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

It seems that ODF is currently missing a way of specifying the orientation of the legend.
Currently (in OpenOffice.org for instance) there's no way to set it directly, but it's automatically changed when you set the legend's position:
when you position it right/left, it's set to vertical, otherwise to horizontal.
But that doesn't really make sense for the case you want to move the legend around freely.

The proposal is to add a chart:legend-orientation attribute to the 

On Monday 17 December 2007 20:19:48 David Faure wrote:
> Something else: there is no attribute for the title of the legend, right?
> Not the chart title, but the text shown inside the legend, which is
> usually "Legend" or nothing at all. Could this be added as well?

A string would be best IMO, since you might want to localize the text 
to "Legenda" (NL) for example. And naturally let that text be dependent on 
the authors initial locale, not the one that opens the document.
You could only do that by writing the text in the doc.

-- 
Thomas Zander

On Monday 17 December 2007, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Monday 17 December 2007 20:19:48 David Faure wrote:
> > Something else: there is no attribute for the title of the legend, right?
> > Not the chart title, but the text shown inside the legend, which is
> > usually "Legend" or nothing at all. Could this be added as well?
> 
> A string would be best IMO, since you might want to localize the text 
> to "Legenda" (NL) for example. And naturally let that text be dependent on 
> the authors initial locale, not the one that opens the document.
> You could only do that by writing the text in the doc.

Yes of course I had in mind a string attribute.

"usually Legend or nothing" was just to illustrate the common use-cases for that
string, but it says "usually" so it could be something else, and "Legend" would be
translated of course.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).

Hi David,

not being a chart expert I have asked Bjoern Milcke for his opinion:

David Faure wrote:
> It seems that ODF is currently missing a way of specifying the orientation of the legend.
> Currently (in OpenOffice.org for instance) there's no way to set it directly, but it's automatically changed when you set the legend's position:
> when you position it right/left, it's set to vertical, otherwise to horizontal.
> But that doesn't really make sense for the case you want to move the legend around freely.
> 
> The proposal is to add a chart:legend-orientation attribute to the 

Hi,

Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> not being a chart expert I have asked Bjoern Milcke for his opinion:
> 
>> Something else: there is no attribute for the title of the legend, right?
>> Not the chart title, but the text shown inside the legend, which is 
>> usually
>> "Legend" or nothing at all. Could this be added as well?
>>
> Bjoern's suggestion for this is to add a sub-element 

Hi,

the current description of the chart:legend element is:

"The