<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="5.0" xml:id="page.margin.outer"> <refmeta> <refentrytitle>page.margin.outer</refentrytitle> <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">length</refmiscinfo> </refmeta> <refnamediv> <refname>page.margin.outer</refname> <refpurpose>The outer page margin</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> <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> </refsynopsisdiv> <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> </refsection> </refentry>