[ODFPlugtest] writing implementation specific defaults

[Sander Marechal]

Wouter van Vugt wrote:
> It must be me, but shouldn't default values be part of the spec instead
> of the application?

Nope. That was rebutted pretty quickly during the plugfest. Take page
size for example. What should be the default? A4? US Letter? You can't
put that in the standard because the correct response is "it depends".

What makes a sensible default for one application does not need to be
sensible for another. To take it further, the correct default margins
probably depend on the page size.

I think it would seriously bloat the spec to try to include all these
defaults in it. For some settings it may make sense to push them to the
spec but for other settings it does not. The latter need to be written
to the document.

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Sander Marechal