Issue 24726 - Avoid direct conversions to US units
Summary: Avoid direct conversions to US units
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2004-01-22 19:27 UTC by mattje
Modified: 2013-07-30 02:17 UTC (History)
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Description mattje 2004-01-22 19:27:22 UTC 
After installing and choosing US units (inches), all the units have simply been
directly converted from their SI counterparts.  So tab spacing is, for example,
0.79 inches.

During installation, the units system should determine the values to use as
defaults - not simply convert from one to the other.  Tab spacing in US system
should default to 0.5 inches.
Comment 1 Oliver Specht 2004-01-23 09:10:22 UTC 
Changing the *display* unit does not (and must not) change the values. 

On systems using non-metric locales the actual values are non-metric, too.
At least on my system it works that way.

So if your locale settings were correctly set to inches you should already get
what you want. And BTW: this is by no means a Priority 1.

What system are you working on an which locale settings do you have?
Comment 2 ace_dent 2008-05-16 02:57:09 UTC 
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request.

The Issue you raised has the status 'New' pending further action, but has not
been updated within the last 4 years. Please consider re-testing with one of the
latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been addressed.
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Andrew
 
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Comment 3 Rob Weir 2013-07-30 02:17:49 UTC 
Reset assignee on issues not touched by assignee in more than 2000 days.