On 12/01/2016 13:22, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
The important part of the Metric feature is that it always wraps the value to the nearest power of 3, and shows values in those powers. 0.1234 would be shown as 123.4 milliunits, or 1,234 microunits, for example (however the user has set it up), and not as "0.1234 u" (unless they are explicitly stating to use "Units", which would be something they'd have to do manually).
I'm not sure of the name, but the user might not want it to be in whole units. Note that 0.1234 is a power of 3, and the user might want it to be *0*.1234 UNITS.
So yes, I like the idea of displaying it to a power of three, but it needs a switch to say "greater than one or less than 1?", so that 0.012 units might stay 0.012 units, or might become 12 milliunits.
imho rounding to the *nearest* power of 3 is a mistake - users invariably want either greater, or less, than one, but NEVER a mix of both.
Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
