#### 7.8.2 Configuring output section formats

The names of section formats must end in Section. The default section format is named Section. Table 7-8 lists the properties you can define for sections.

Table 7-8 RTF output section properties

Section property | Valid property values
    help
| Any text to describe purpose or use of format
    start side
| right, left, or page (default); indicates which page type starts the section; page means the section starts on the next page, regardless of page type; and if first page=Yes, applies first-page headers and footers, regardless of page type
    mirror margins
| Yes or No; if Yes, and if document property two sided is Yes, left and right margins of each left page are exchanged, so that inner margins of both left and right pages are equal to the right page's left margin, and outer margins of both pages are equal to the right page's right margin
    page number type
| Num (default), UCAlpha, LCAlpha, UCRom, or LCRom; see Table 8-2
    page number start
| First value to use, a digit regardless of type; 1 could indicate 1, A, a, I, or i. depending on the value of page number type.
    orient
| portrait (default) or landscape
    page wide
    page high
| Any CSS units for the physical page dimensions, such as in or mm.
    margin left
    margin right
    margin top
    margin bottom
| Distances from the edge of the paper to the edge of the body area (which may have multiple columns), ignoring any header or footer
    first space above
| Distance from the normal top margin of the body area to the top margin for the first page
    gutter
| Width; if document property two sided =Yes, adds to the right page's left margin and the left page's right margin; if not two sided, adds to the left margin of every page;
    column count
| Number of columns; if more than one, columns are snaking, top to bottom, left to right
    column rule
| Yes or No (default); if Yes, and column count > 1, adds a single thin balck line between columns, that is just long enough to reach the bottom of the longest column content (not the bottom of the body area)
    border left
    border right
    border top
    border bottom
| Names of border formats that surround the body area (see §8.2 Defining border format components) or None
    border header
    border footer
| Yes or No; if Yes, the page border also surrounds the header and footer, not just the body area
    header top
| Distance from top edge of page to top of header
    footer bottom
| Distance from bottom edge to bottom of footer
    first page
| Yes or No; if Yes, use the first-page header and footer, if any
    header first
    footer first
| Names of header and footer formats for first pages (see §7.8.3 Configuring page header and footer formats) or None; used only if first page=Yes
    header left
    footer left
| Names of header and footer formats for even pages, if document property two sided =Yes, or None
    header right
    footer right
| Names of header and footer formats for odd pages, if document property two sided =Yes, or for all pages if two sided =No, or None

These are the default section properties:

    [Section]
    start side = right
    mirror margins = yes
    page number type = Num
    page number start = 1
    orient = portrait
    page wide = 8.5in
    page high = 11in
    margin left = 1in
    margin right = 0.75in
    margin top = 1in
    margin bottom = 0.75in
    gutter = 0
    column count = 1
    column gap = 0
    column rule = no
    border top = None
    border bottom = None
    border left = None
    border right = None
    border header = yes
    border footer = yes
    header top = 0.25in
    footer bottom = 0.25in
    first page = yes
    first space above = 1in
    header first = FirstHeader
    footer first = FirstFooter
    header left = LeftHeader
    footer left = LeftFooter
    header right = Header
    footer right = Footer

Previous Topic: 7.8.1 Establishing default properties for output pages

Next Topic: 7.8.3 Configuring page header and footer formats

Parent Topic: 7.8 Configuring page layouts for RTF output

Sibling Topics:

7.8.1 Establishing default properties for output pages

7.8.3 Configuring page header and footer formats

7.8.4 Forcing page and column breaks

7.8.5 Configuring border formats for output pages

7.8.6 Configuring a title page (an example)

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