#### 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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