OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

Greetings! While reading Regina's excellent work on defining what is meant by header, footer, etc., it occurred to me that ODF doesn't define (reference the standards setting) page sizes. In Office-3938, https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/OFFICE-3938 , Svante has suggested changing fo:page-width and fo:page-height from *optional* to *mandatory.* The wikipedia page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size , is a good starting point for standards to reference on page sizes, should we choose to add them. At a minimum, I would suggest ISO 216, ISO 217, ISO 269, DIN 476-2, SIS 014711, JIS-B4, JIS-B5, GB/T 148-1997, ESKD GOST 2301-68, and ANSI/ASME Y14.1. What sizes implementations choose to support, being left to the implementations. Question: If we specify page sizes, do we include specification of business or index card sizes? Those being common office documents? Question: Beyond documents per se, are other other standard dimensions for authoring or printing drawings, charts, spreadsheets, etc.? Hope everyone is having a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau Attachment: signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

On 15.03.2018 16:49, Patrick Durusau wrote: > Greetings! > > While reading Regina's excellent work on defining what is meant by > header, footer, etc., it occurred to me that ODF doesn't define > (reference the standards setting) page sizes. > > In Office-3938, https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/OFFICE-3938 , Svante > has suggested changing fo:page-width and fo:page-height from *optional* > to *mandatory.* hi Patrick, i notice that the attributes in question are of type "length"... > The wikipedia page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size , is a good > starting point for standards to reference on page sizes, should we > choose to add them. > > At a minimum, I would suggest ISO 216, ISO 217, ISO 269, DIN 476-2, SIS > 014711, JIS-B4, JIS-B5, GB/T 148-1997, ESKD GOST 2301-68, and ANSI/ASME > Y14.1. What sizes implementations choose to support, being left to the > implementations. ... so all of these standards and a lot more are already supported because users can just type in the corresponding height and width and that should be interoperable among all applications. making that easier to use by providing a drop-down list of common formats or the like is application specific and an UI design question that shouldn't concern us here. so i don't see what the point is of adding references to all these standards. regards, michael -- Michael Stahl Senior Software Engineer Platform Engineering - Desktop Team Red Hat Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com Red Hat GmbH, http://www.de.redhat.com/ , Sitz: Grasbrunn, Handelsregister: Amtsgericht München, HRB 153243, Geschäftsführer: Charles Cachera, Michael Cunningham, Michael O'Neill, Eric Shander