Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 99477
More room for function descriptions required
Last modified: 2013-01-29 21:44:48 UTC
Hi The function description space in the function wizzard seems to be limited to 2 lines and is not enough for some languages. Also, these functions descriptions in english are extremely concise and often very hard to translate in an a way average Calc users can understand. For instance, the description below: <en-US> Returns left-tail probability of the cumulative distribution function or values of the probability density function of the chi-square distribution. </en-US> has been translated as (in pt-br) <pt-BR> Retorna a probabilidade da cauda esquerda da função distribuição ou os valores da função densidade de probabilidade da distribuição de chi-quadrado (χ²). </pt-BR> which does not fit into the 2 lines of the function dialog wizzard (see image), and is very hard to read. So pelase add extra lines for the description so that we can fit our translation and improve readability. Thank you.
Created attachment 60343 [details] more room for function description
Created attachment 60344 [details] another issue on lack of room
I checked with "Ooo Dev 3.1.0 multilingual version English UI WIN XP: [OOo310m2 (Build 9385)]" and can confirm the reported effect. But it's not a localization problem, I also see truncated texts in that English Version. Example: IMPT(). The text for explication of the function will be shown completely before the function has been selected. Indeed, it seems that most of the English texts are not as long as in other languages