DITA for Print

Set up body regions

Determine the dimensions of the body region of your page masters.

In the previous exercise, we saw that the page-margin-top and page-margin-bottom variables define the top and bottom margins of the page. Both variables are set to 1in.

By default, the PDF plugin uses the same two variables to define the top and bottom margins of the body region of the page.

This makes the body region start where the top margin ends and end where the bottom margin begins. So you get a page like Figure 1:

Figure 10. Body region without space above and below

But this isn’t what we want now. We want .25in of white space between the top margin ...