> What should the margins be One inch for US Letter (the standard).
> and where are they supposed to be defined? Technically, they are implied by the paper choice (US Letter), just as 8.5 X 11 is implied by US Letter. Although 8.5 x 11 is a more concrete aspect of US Letter than margins (the former being explicitly specified, the latter not), the reality is that there simply is no standard other than 1" margins. There is not a single situation that I can think of or that I have found in which an application would use something other than 1" margins by default for US Letter. > I see the 0.79" margin in OOo 3.1.0 as well on letter sized paper, > bug I don't know whether that is actually a bug or not. I would argue that it is a bug for the following reasons: 1) One inch margins for US Letter is simply the standard, supported by the MLA and Chicago Manual of Style, and I have found no evidence to the contrary 2) Every other major word processor I have seen/used uses one inch margins with US Letter 3) Aside from that, I have not been able to find what standard 2 cm (or 0.79") falls under, nor can I find a standard consensus for A4 margins at all. So even if for whatever reason it shouldn't be 1", why should it be 2 cm? -- Margins don't respect current locale https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377804 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
