page.margin.outer.xml #1

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<refentrytitle>page.margin.outer</refentrytitle>
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<refpurpose>The outer page margin</refpurpose>
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<src:fragment xml:id="page.margin.outer.frag"><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></src:fragment>
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<refsection><info><title>Description</title></info>

<para>The outer page margin is the distance from non-bound edge of the
page to the outer edge of the last column of text.</para>

<para>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.</para>

<para>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.</para>

<note>
<para>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 <parameter>page.margin.inner</parameter>
and <parameter>page.margin.outer</parameter>, until
this bug is fixed by RenderX.  It does not affect documents
with left-to-right text direction.</para>
</note>

<para>See also <parameter>writing.mode</parameter>.</para>

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