Document Settings

Used to describe all settings regarding the appearance of the exported document.

Selectors

• Definitions:

  • document-settings

Style Settings

Setting	Type	Examples	Description
column-count	Number	2	The number of text columns used for output.
column-spacing-width	Length	1cm	The spacing between two text columns for multi-column layouts.
footnote-enumeration	Symbol	per-page, per-section, continuous	Specifies how to enumerate footnotes.
footnote-placement	Symbol	end-of-page, end-of-section, end-of-document	Specifies where to place footnotes in the document.
footnote-style	Symbol	decimal, lowercase-alpha, uppercase-alpha, lowercase-roman, uppercase-roman, chicago-style-manual	The style that should be used for enumerating footnotes.
locale	String	"de", "en", "es"	The locale that should be used for hyphenation if language detection fails.
page-binding	Symbol	left, right	The position of the page binding.
page-height	Length	21cm	The height of the page.
page-inset-bottom	Length	2cm, 72pt	The spacing between the bottom border of a page and the page content.
page-inset-inner	Length	2cm, 72pt	The spacing between the inner border of a page and the page content. Depends on page-binding and two-sided.
page-inset-outer	Length	2cm, 72pt	The spacing between the outer border of a page and the page content. Depends on page-binding and two-sided.
page-inset-top	Length	2cm, 72pt	The spacing between the top border of a page and the page content.
page-number-format	String	"- %p -"	The format string that should be used for page numbers.
page-number-reset	Symbol	none, per-section	Specifies whether page numbers should be reset on each section.
page-number-style	Symbol	decimal, lowercase-alpha, uppercase-alpha, lowercase-roman, uppercase-roman	The style that should be used for generating page numbers.
page-orientation	Symbol	portrait, landscape	The orientation of a page.
page-width	Length	14.8cm	The width of the page.
section-break	Symbol	none, heading-1, heading-2, heading-3, heading-4, heading-5, heading-6, paragraph-divider	Specifies whether headings or dividers will introduce a section break.
two-sided	Boolean	no, yes	Specifies whether the output should be generated for two-sided printing or not.

Example

document-settings {
  page-binding:    left
  two-sided:       yes
  column-count:    2
}