Pagination and General Styles
Prev |  | Next

# Pagination and General Styles

## 1. Understanding XSL FO Margins

In order for the parameters in this section to make sense, it is useful to consider Figure 1.

Figure 1.

[D]

First, let's consider the regions on the page.

The white region is the physical page. Its dimensions are determined by the `page.height` and `page.width` parameters.

The yellow region is the region-body. The size and placement of the region body is constrained by the dimensions labelled in the figure.

The pink region at the top of the page is the region-before. The darker area inside the region-before is the header text. In XSL, the default display alignment for the region-before is `before`, but the DocBook stylesheets explicitly make it `after`. That's why the darker area is at the bottom.

The pink region at the bottom of the page is the region-after. The darker area is the footer text. In XSL, the default display alignment for the region-after is `before` (really!), but the DocBook stylesheets explicitly make it `after`. That's why the darker area is at the bottom.

The dimensions in the figure are:

- The page-master margin-top.

- The region-before extent.

- The region-body margin-top.

- The region-after extent.

- The page-master margin-bottom.

- The region-body margin-bottom.

- The sum of the page-master margin-left and the region-body margin-left. In DocBook, the region-body margin-left is zero by default, so this is simply the page-master region-left.

- The sum of the page-master margin-right and the region-body margin-right. In DocBook, the region-body margin-right is zero by default, so this is simply the page-master region-left.

Prev | Up | Next
stylesheet.result.type | Home | page.height