Paper sizes plus defaults?

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

While reading Regina's excellent work on defining what is meant by
header, footer, etc., it occurred to me that ODF doesn't define
(reference the standards setting) page sizes.

In Office-3938, https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/OFFICE-3938, Svante
has suggested changing fo:page-width and fo:page-height from *optional*
to *mandatory.*

The wikipedia page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size, is a good
starting point for standards to reference on page sizes, should we
choose to add them.

At a minimum, I would suggest ISO 216, ISO 217, ISO 269, DIN 476-2, SIS
014711, JIS-B4, JIS-B5, GB/T 148-1997, ESKD GOST 2301-68, and ANSI/ASME
Y14.1. What sizes implementations choose to support, being left to the
implementations.

Question: If we specify page sizes, do we include specification of
business or index card sizes? Those being common office documents?

Question: Beyond documents per se, are other other standard dimensions
for authoring or printing drawings, charts, spreadsheets, etc.?

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Patrick

-- 
Patrick Durusau
patrick@durusau.net
Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)

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