https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152551

--- Comment #2 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to BogdanB from comment #1)
> my default template is 2 cm all margins. All new documents are the
> same. So, could be correct that all new documents are based on a template.

The latter does not follow from the former. "I have set a default template, and
my new documents are being created from it" is *not* equal to "all new
documents are based on a template".

> But only IF LibreOffice is taking default template when creating a new
> document.

LibreOffice *does* take a default template when creating a new document, *if
and only if* the default template is set. When it's not set, no template is
taken into account.

> But also, if the default template is created based on hardcoded numbers and
> a new document is created based on the same default hardcoded numbers that
> could also mean that it is based on the template, because we have the same
> settings in hardcoded code, template and new document created from code
> (default template).

This is playing words. The term "template" is used in a very specific sense in
the technical documentation, which is LibreOffice help. It is about a kind of
*files* (ODF) that have names, are placed somewhere in the filesystem, and so
on. The term "default template" also has a very specific meaning in the
documentation, namely "a template (see above) that is configured in LibreOffice
(either in shared configuration, or user configuration) to be used by default".
The philosophical/linguistical question "what one could call a template" is not
relevant to our documentation. And the current situation is confusing. And that
is especially important since MS Word, for instance, has a true "default
template" (normal.dot(m)), and so people tend to expect something similar in LO
*by default*.

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