[OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (OFFICE-3767) [text] Proposal: contextual spacing of paragraphs

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Robert Weir  commented on OFFICE-3767:
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It is not clear what this feature does.  Maybe an example would help:

margin:top
Paragraph A
margin:bottom

margin:top
Paragraph B
margin:bottom

margin:top
Paragraph C
margin:bottom

If the new proposed attribute was added to the paragraph style for Paragraph B, what would be the result?  Does it suppress only Paragraph B's margins?  Or Paragraph A's and C's as well?

Also what does "have the same  paragraph style" mean?  Is this only if they reference the identical style name?  Or would different style names, but with the same effective values also trigger this?

I'm not sure I like the name "contextual-spacing".  That term is rather vague.  I believe this technique is generally referred to as "collapsing" the margins for adjacent paragraphs, e.g., : http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html#collapsing-margins   So I'd prefer something like "style:collapse-margins"

> [text] Proposal: contextual spacing of paragraphs
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OFFICE-3767
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-3767
>             Project: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Styles
>         Environment: This is an enhancement, described in terms of changes to OpenDocument-v1.2 
>            Reporter: Thorsten Behrens 
>            Assignee: Thorsten Behrens 
>             Fix For: ODF 1.3
>
>
> Improve interoperability with other text processors, by enabling round-trip of additional paragraph attributes.

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