Subject: Re: right-click to do calculations Non-member submission from [pod@sapienagents.net]]
rob.campbell@att.net
Date: Tue May 22 2001 - 13:52:25 CDT
Microsoft Word utilizes fields for this purpose, so that
the original expression can be edited, and supports a
richer set of operators, such as exponent (^). Now
that's kind of cool and involves work on features (i.e.
fields) used elsewhere. There really doesn't seem much
point (to me) to implementing the feature as it has been
described so far; to each his own.
That is, unless it included decimal to hexidecimal
conversion so that I could enter the
letters 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', and 'f' from the
keypad. Being an engineer, I really am much more
efficient with the keypad.
Rob Campbell
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ha shao" <hashao@chinese.com>
> To: <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 2:21 PM
> Subject: Re: right-click to do calculations Non-member submission from
> [pod@sapienagents.net]]
>
> > On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:02:40PM +0200, hfiguiere@teaser.fr wrote:
> > > According to ha shao <hashao@chinese.com>:
> > > >
> > The hammer thing is a wrong metaphor from the beginning. Abiword
> > is not a caculator, [...] However small it is, it does not belong to wp.
>
> The WP Microsoft Word supports calculating/evaluating expressions.
>
>
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