Re: [office] style inheritance again

On Thursday 12 March 2009, Peter Junge wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> Florian Reuter wrote:
> >  Hi,
> > 
> > I just ran over the following problem about style inheritance in ODF.
> > [...]
> > So when rendering a paragraph with style "MyStyle" will the paragraph
> > have 5 tabs [1in, 2in, 3in, 4in, 5in] or just one tab at [1in] according
> > to ODF inheritance?
> 
> Just my opinion as a newbie at this TC. The composite result of your
> example obviously makes sense. But what about having the following style
> definitions:
> [...]
> You will end up in a tabstop mess. Hence I think <style:tab-stops>
> should be overwritten by default.

Yes, this is the only option that makes sense. The whole set of tab-stops
should be replaced when a derived styles' properties define <style:tab-stops>.
Should this be made clearer in the spec?

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