<html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>page.margin.outer</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../reference.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="DocBook XSL Stylesheets: Reference Documentation"><link rel="up" href="general.html" title="Pagination and General Styles"><link rel="prev" href="page.margin.inner.html" title="page.margin.inner"><link rel="next" href="page.margin.top.html" title="page.margin.top"><link rel="copyright" href="copyright.html" title="License"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">page.margin.outer</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="page.margin.inner.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Pagination and General Styles</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="page.margin.top.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="page.margin.outer"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2><span class="refentrytitle">page.margin.outer</span></h2><p>page.margin.outer — The outer page margin</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><a name="page.margin.outer.frag"></a><pre class="programlisting"><xsl:param name="page.margin.outer"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="$double.sided != 0">0.75in</xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise>1in</xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:param></pre></div><div class="refsection"><a name="d0e19307"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>The outer page margin is the distance from non-bound edge of the page to the outer edge of the last column of text.</p><p>In left-to-right text direction, this is the right margin of recto (front side) pages. For single-sided output, it is the right margin of all pages.</p><p>In right-to-left text direction, this is the left margin of recto pages. For single-sided output, this is the left margin of all pages.</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>Current versions (at least as of version 4.13) of the XEP XSL-FO processor do not correctly handle these margin settings for documents with right-to-left text direction. The workaround in that situation is to reverse the values for <em class="parameter"><code>page.margin.inner</code></em> and <em class="parameter"><code>page.margin.outer</code></em>, until this bug is fixed by RenderX. It does not affect documents with left-to-right text direction.</p></div><p>See also <em class="parameter"><code>writing.mode</code></em>.</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="page.margin.inner.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="general.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="page.margin.top.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">page.margin.inner </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> page.margin.top</td></tr></table></div></body></html>