suffix and prefix in <number:number-style> and <number:text-style>

[Elvis Stansvik]

2013/8/5 Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com>

> 2013/8/5 Jos van den Oever <jos.van.den.oever at kogmbh.com>
>
>> Look what I found in libs/odf/KoOdfNumberStyles.**cpp:
>>
>> ===
>> //This is an extension of numeric style. For the moment we used namespace
>> of
>> //oasis format for specific calligra extension. Change it for the future.
>> void addCalligraNumericStyleExtensi**on(KoXmlWriter &elementWriter,
>> const QString &_suffix, const QString &_prefix)
>> ===
>>
>> This function write tags <number:suffix> and <number:prefix> in the
>> <number:number-style> elements and the <number:text-style> elements.
>>
>> It was introduced in 2005:
>> ===
>> commit 9964ed1963bbf629d0f6d54d83ab9f**1d423db3fc
>> Author: Laurent Montel <montel at kde.org>
>> Date:   Sun Feb 27 12:21:40 2005 +0000
>>
>>     Allow to store prefix/suffix into numeric style
>>     (koffice extension)
>> ===
>>
>> This feature is used in Sheets:
>>  - create empty spreadsheet
>>  - choose 'Cell Format ..." from the context menu of a cell
>>  - write 'PREFIX' in the 'Prefix:' field
>>  - write 'SUFFIX' in the 'Postfix:' field
>>  - close the dialog
>>  - The cell now contains this text: "PREFIX 0 SUFFIX"
>>  - save the file
>>
>> Saving gives this ODF fragment:
>>     <number:number-style style:name="N1">
>>       <number:text>PREFIX</number:**text>
>>       <number:number number:min-integer-digits="1"/**>
>>       <number:text>SUFFIX</number:**text>
>>       <number:suffix>SUFFIX</number:**suffix>
>>       <number:prefix>PREFIX</number:**prefix>
>>     </number:number-style>
>>
>> Opening it in LibreOffice shows: "PREFIX0SUFFIX" which is correct
>> interpretation of the XML. Looking at the cell format dialog shows this
>> formatting string:
>>   "PREFIX"General"SUFFIX"
>>
>> Saving the spreadsheet again, gives this:
>>     <number:number-style style:name="N120">
>>       <number:text>PREFIX</number:**text>
>>       <number:number number:min-integer-digits="1"/**>
>>       <number:text>SUFFIX</number:**text>
>>     </number:number-style>
>>
>> As expected, the non-standard, prefix and suffix are removed.
>>
>> Gnumeric can load the file too but does not show the prefix and suffix.
>>
>> Since the prefix and postfix behavior can be obtained with the
>> <number:text/> element, I propose that Calligra removes the code for
>> writing <text:suffix> and <text:prefix>.
>>
>
> Sounds right to me (if you mean not remove, but replace it with writing of
> <number:text>), if they really are functionally equivalent.
>

Though thinking a bit more; when loading <number:text/> back in, how do we
know that this was specified as a prefix/suffix by the user (and this
should be placed in the Prefix:/Suffix fields), and not as a general text
component of the format? (just assuming you can do that as well).

Elvis


>
>
> Elvis
>
>
>> Cheers,
>> Jos
>>
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