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Subject: Re: [office] Groups - Comparison of default styles(default-styles.ods) uploaded
Ming Fei Jia wrote: > It seems most of values use "in" instead of "cm" as unit for length. You are right. But at least in OpenOffice.org, the measurement unit that is used in ODF depends on the measurement unit that is selected for the UI. If measures are displayed in inch, then the unit that is used in ODF is "in". If measures are displayed in "cm", then "cm" are used in ODF. That means that it depends on the unit setting in the UI that was active when saving the defaults whether they are stored in inch or cm. We could also use only inch, or only cm, if we want. So, the question is actually what the preferred measurement unit for an international standard would be, or if there is such a preference at all. Related to this is the question whether and how we define defaults for those properties that may have locale dependent values. I have suggested already that we don't specify defaults for the page size, because there are at least Legal and A4 paper dimensions. Assuming A4 as default won't work very well for countries that usually use only Legal paper, and vice versa. However, there seem to be several properties that depend on the paper dimensions. Like the margins, where I assume that other margins are reasonable for a Legal page than for an A4 page. The same applies to the dimensions of headers and footers. And even for the default tab stop distance I believe that another values is reasonable for countries that use the metric system than for those that use English units. Best regards Michael -- Michael Brauer, Technical Architect Software Engineering StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems GmbH Nagelsweg 55 D-20097 Hamburg, Germany michael.brauer@sun.com http://sun.com/staroffice +49 40 23646 500 http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boemer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering
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