[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113517] Setting line spacing for 'Default Style' paragraph style to 1.15

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113517

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

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--- Comment #5 from Yousuf Philips (jay) <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> Since Default is the mother of all dragons we would change everything.
> Footer, header, quotations etc. all with 115%? Don't think that's a good
> idea. => WF

So its not a good idea that text in a table (Table Contents), quoted text
(Quotations), frame text (Frame Contents), image captions (Caption), code
(Preformatted Text), text in the header (Header Left), etc., which are all not
child styles of Text Body, should also have the same line spacing that text
assigned to Text Body has?

(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #2)
> Any style that inherits "default" would pick up the new multi-line spacing,
> that would be added to any height above/below already used in those styles.
> IIUC, would equally affect direct formatting in all modules which currently
> pick up the same value.

Ideally we would want all text in a document to have the same line spacing and
above/below spacing, unless specifically set not to, else you have nicely
spaced text in one place and crammed text in another. We changed[1] Text Body
from single to 1.20 based on a document[2] that only had non-heading text set
to Text Body paragraph style, not taking into account all the various places
that text can appear in, like the Frame Content, Caption, and Quotations
paragraph styles.

(In reply to David from comment #3)
> "Default" should mean the default of whatever the font metrics is, not some
> arbitrary value that a developer thinks it needs to be adjusted to. 

'Default' is whatever we choose to be the default, like we choose that the
default font will be Liberation Serif and a user can choose to change that
default to something else, it does not mean that must default to the single
line spacing of the font metrics. And more precisely 'Default' simply means
that no paragraph style has been applied to it.

> Changing the default would require editing of all previously created
> documents based on the default metrics.  Please do not change!

It would not require the editing of older documents unless the user wishes to
make those documents have the new defaults.

> I can give a
> list of real bugs that should be fixed rather than change just for the sake
> of change on something that already works fine just the way it is.

The adjustment of line spacing is a highly modified attribute, so choosing the
best possible value so users dont have to adjust it is an important usability
feature.

[1] http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Default-Writer-Template-td4076271.html
[2]
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/3/37/Default_Writer_Sans_Template_0.2.ott

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