I wrote: > Surely any ODF implementation is free to *display* documents however it > wishes, even if it would implement (in the sense of "round-trip") the > document exactly. The *rendering* is completely unspecified by ODF, > isn't it?
Michael Stahl replied: > rendering is quite constrained by the ODF spec > also there are things that affect rendering that are not obvious, for > example having a hyphenation extension for the document language > installed or not (or just one that does hyphenation differently) may > have an effect on the layout. "may" have an effect is a serious understatement, surely? Especially in languages with long compound words, like German and Finnish, hyphenation choices will drastically affect how many lines some text requires. So maybe I should restate my claim then, and say that an ODF document can specify things like column widths and inter-line distance quite precisely, but in general the number of lines and thus vertical space taken up by a paragraph of text is up to the rendering client. This is not a critique of ODF, far from it. One should just not misunderstand what is possible. --tml _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
