Comment 23 for bug 1990673

Let me clarify what I meant when opening the bug.

The issue is NOT that the style named “Default” looks wrong. Problems arise from the fact that all other paragraph styles inherit from it, which leads to surprising behaviour. For example, if I add hyphenation to the “Default” paragraphs, I get hyphenation in headings as well. This is a gotcha (counter-intuitive, but documented, behaviour).

If the paragraph style for new documents would have been named “Default”, which would inherit from template called, lets call it “Baseline” and all other documents would inherit from said “Baseline”, then I there would be no bug. However, I do NOT think this is necessary, just don't use the “Default” style for the new documents.

My suggestion to use “Text body” style (Reason2) was proposed only because it is used after headings. If people like the formatting of the “Default”, make a new style, let it inherit all the properties of the ”Default“ style, call it something generic, like “Paragraph”, and use it for the first paragraph in new documents.

I don't think this would break any existing documents or affect interoperability.