Hi, On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Fridrich Strba < fridrich.st...@graduateinstitute.ch> wrote:
> On 18/03/14 06:23, Matteo Campanelli wrote: > > - /"text background color":/ > > > > It seems to me that it is possible to specify a text box background > > in color in Draw. Are we then referring to background color of the > > text only? > > Yes, it is possible to specify the colour of the text box itself, but it > is not possible to specify the background of the text itself. The > problem can be seen in import filters, where in the original > applications the text, that has non-transparent (i.e. white) background, > is describing lines (like in technical drawings). Because the background > is transparent, the text is basically unreadable because of the line > that is under it. > I see, but thinking again I'm wondering: wouldn't specifying a text box with a certain transparency style be enough for that family of issues? Or is there something else text background may be required for? > In the ODF file-format, there is a possibility to specify a sequence of > frames where text, when arrives at the end of one frame overflows into > the next one. > I made a search in the specification and I believe it is draw:chain-next-name<http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-part1.html#attribute-draw_chain-next-name> you are referring to. Is that correct? So, implementing this feature would require to: - allow Draw to parse properly the attribute above (where does parsing of attributes and similar happens in the code architecture?); - implement the expected overflowing behavior (this should be simple enough, but still I am not sure where text boxes are handled in Draw's code); - allow text boxes to specify a next link from the UI (maybe optional for a Summer Project?) > > Is there already something like this in Draw or LO in general, i..e > > ways. to reference other objects' properties explicitly? > > Not in Draw yet. We have in LibreOffice already this feature implemented > for Writer, where you can do this kind of "linked frames". > I see. Could you please exemplify I could I test this in Writer? > > - /"support of style":/ > > > I would in the first time look what is possible to specify in the Style > and Formatting in Draw and what is possible in Writer. The first goal > would be to bring them at the same level. > I'm starting to believe that the first three features (text background, overflow in frames and hyphenation) could be sufficient for a summer project; adding more may make it risky. > > Now, be aware that we might discover that any of this task is more > complicated then what we think. > Thanks for your interest. I hope that I answered at least some of your > questions. > You definitely did, thank you. Now my goal is to get a better grasp of how to approach these problems in the code and also which other subtasks they can be split it. Cheers, Matteo > Cheers > > Fridrich > >
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