Comment 3 for bug 596146

The discussion of "Select a new reference point for object coordinates (basepoint)" had been moved to a separate report (bug #170674) - see comment #6 of bug #170347 “ability to set coordinate origin”.

Bug 170347 is about «setting the coordinate origin for the entire document». What might be confusing is that the report was filed at a time where (due to a different implementation of the grid feature) there was 'accidental' way of changing the ruler origin (prior to 0.46) - see comment #7 of bug #170347 “ability to set coordinate origin”.