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Bug 686481 - In charts, number formated as scientific/exponents should display 10^0 instead of 10^+0
In charts, number formated as scientific/exponents should display 10^0 instea...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: General
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Other Linux
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Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
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Reported: 2012-10-19 15:54 UTC by Emmanuel Pacaud
Modified: 2012-11-10 03:48 UTC
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Description Emmanuel Pacaud 2012-10-19 15:54:59 UTC 
If you create a graph, and choose scientific, then exponents with 'don't show 1x" for the axis label format, 1 is displayed 10^+00, instead of 1.
Comment 1 Emmanuel Pacaud 2012-10-19 16:00:39 UTC 
I've just checked the rendering gnumeric used to do, and it was 10^0, which is fine. What looks weird is +0.

I've updated the bug title.
Comment 2 Andreas J. Guelzow 2012-10-19 19:01:30 UTC 
Note that the GUI creates the format #EE+0 which forces the use of an sign in the superscript. You are expecting #EE0 which would show only a negative sign.

Note that currently #EE0 does not work, but #EE00 does. This is bug #86480.
Comment 3 Morten Welinder 2012-10-19 22:58:01 UTC 
It's most certainly not bug 86480.

It's bug 686480, I think.
Comment 4 Andreas J. Guelzow 2012-10-19 23:26:01 UTC 
oops, yes indeed...
Comment 5 Andreas J. Guelzow 2012-10-19 23:27:45 UTC 
Morten, I think we should add a toggle to the GUI for scientific notation whether to always show an exponent sign or not.
Comment 6 Morten Welinder 2012-10-20 19:06:30 UTC 
With the patch over in bug bug 686480, I think the format engine does
the right thing given the format.

#EE+0 gives 10^+0
#EE0 gives 10^0

I would not mind an extra check button, although the dialog is getting
a little crowded.
Comment 7 Andreas J. Guelzow 2012-11-10 03:48:50 UTC 
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.

We now have a 'force exponent sign' checkbox in the scientific number format selector. By default it is off, so the + sign in the exponent is not shown.