Hi,
Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
> On 04/14/09 23:41, wrote:
>> If you define the attributes for a default style then you will need to
>> make a specific statement about many locale dependent items such as
>> text direction, decimal separators, even typeface. Locales that use
>> the defaults stated by the standard will then be able to have more
>> concise markup, since they could assume the defaults. And locales
>> that differ from the defaults would require more verbose markup since
>> they would need to override those defaults 100% of the time.
>
> I agree. And in fact, even in OpenOffice.org, there is no single
> universal default style, but the default style is generated based on
> locale information. Further, the user has the option to specify some of
> these defaults manually.
>
> Which is to say that I'm in favor of keeping the default styles
> implementation dependent.
>
>
I agree to Rob's and Michael's opinion.
Best regards, Oliver.
P.S.: We have proposal "Add default values" -
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/Add_default_values - in progress in
order to define at least a part of default values for certain attributes
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