[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 47295] Default paragraph style should be "Text body" and not "Default "

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47295

Yousuf Philips (jay) <philipz85 at hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #20 from Yousuf Philips (jay) <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Thomas Lendo from comment #18)
> For me the 2 reasons stated by the bug opener are still valid. And moreover
> (despite what MS Office does) LibreOffice should ease the making of
> good-looking documents out of the box without e.g. changing the default
> paragraph style or switching to another paragraph style manually.

When the bug opener opened this bug, LO 3.5 was out and the only difference
between Default and Text Body was that Text Body had 0.08" spacing below
paragraph and had nothing to do with line spacing.

The opener's reason 1 doesnt make sense to me, because if a user wanted a
different indentation for particular paragraphs, he'd create his own paragraph
style or use an existing paragraph style that isnt Default. It is obvious that
if you dont want all text in a document to be affected by a change in a style
that you wouldnt modify Default.

About the opener's reason 2, LO provides users who are heavy into styles (those
who assign styles before or during editing) to automatically assign non-heading
text to Text Body, while those who arent heavy into styles (those who assign
styles after finishing their editing) to leave non-heading text without a
paragraph style. Heavy style users may like this automatic setting of
non-heading text to Text Body as an advantage as no other word processors (MS
Word, WPS Writer, WordPerfect, Softmaker TextMaker, Calligra Words, Google
Docs, AbiWord, iWork Pages) does this.

> Good-looking means to me: paragraphs without using blank lines, good line
> spacing, etc. That is what Text Body provides.

Text Body only provides that for itself and its child styles. So my reply in
bug 113517 for more info.

> Existing documents/templates shouldn't be affected to not interrupt user
> expectations.

Yes if this change was made to the default writer template, and not to LO's
behaviour, then it wouldnt affect existing documents.

(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #19)
> Why should we care what other programs do when creating new files? 

As we care about interoperability, we have to care.

(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6)
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/107566594492891737454/posts/LC6AnLuQL9z

And lets not forget the poll results that 46% use Default, while 37% prefer to
use Text Body.

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