On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 11:35:47AM +0200, Michael Schutte wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 01:13:07PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> > PAPERSIZE provides a SINGLE place to configure the default paper size,
> > just as the LC_ variables allow the user to customize the default
> > language, dialect, encoding, collation order, etc. As a user, it is
> > incredibly frustrating when programs have to be individually
> > configured because they ignore these standardized settings.
>
> I completely see your point, but now I wonder about the correct
> implementation. styles.odt already contains a page layout
> specification. odtwriter could override these dimensions according to
> the output of “paperconf -s”, but I think that it should not always do
> this:
The behaviour I'd expect ("least suprise") is for the locale-specific
papersize to be used *unless* the user supplies a stylesheet
(--stylesheet or --stylesheet-path) that sets the paper size.
Can the stylesheet (template?) abstain from specifying a papersize?
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