Bug#630466: libreoffice: HTML exports from calc suck
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:41:12AM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Other software being broken is not an excuse for all software being
> broken. By this approach no bug would ever be fixed.
Exporting HTML *always* is suboptimal.
> >> - the "automatic" colors (the default black on white) are not recorded
> >> in the export. I am not sure if these "automatic" colors can change.
> >> LibreOffice does not seem to respond to theming of other parts of the
> >> system. Either way, the "automatic" colors must be exported for the
> >> document to look correctly when viewed in a web browser which may
> >> have text and background color different from LibreOffice.
> >
> > Then you should have done your table in a way this doesn't hapen
> > or format it so that the scenario doesn't happen or use a website
> > design where it doesn't happen. Don't expect HTML export knowing what you
> > will use it in it can't. And HTML doesn't have "automatic colors" anyway.
>
> The "automatic" colors in Calc are exported as undefined in HTML. That is wrong.
And that is bad how? You get black if you don't specify fonts. As said
above, either fix up the HTML after it or use a website design which works.
> >> - the text automatically spanning multiple cells (when it overflows a
> >> cell and the neigbour cell is empty) does not do so in HTML
> >
> > Of course not. The text is in one cell. That it just overflows that cell
> > is so, but how should Calc know? it's text *inside that cell*. If you don't
> > proper formatting in your sheet, don't blame others for that,
>
> It does know, how else would it render the text over the other cells?
Because it _renders_ it this way. The *content* is assigned *to that one cell*.
What gets exported is not rendering but *content*.
> >> - alignment is not reflected in HTML. Specifically I use right and left
> >> aligned columns next to each other with increased indent added to the
> >> left aligned column. There is no space between the two in the HTML
> >
> > ... which easily can be workarounded by fixing the HTML to use cellpadding.
>
> Then the HTML export should include it. It sets all padding explicitly
> to 0 resulting in this issue.
Or you fix the padding up if you need it.
> What is it then?
Nothing. A not ideal export and someone who thinks stuff he hasn't specified
should be exported.
> If the HTML export is not meant to be useful then disable it completely.
You so far haven't shown that it isn't useful, Just not useful for
you specific case - which can be solved by a bit of post-processing. >you
don't just embed whatever calc exporrts into your site without checking
ot anyway, do you?
Grüße/Regards,
René
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