Chris,

That is the first thing that I tried and it didn't work. Logically it makes
sense. The weird thing is even though I have all of the region-before and
region-after set to 1in, they vary by what simple-page-master they belong to.
None of them actually have a 1 inch margin. I also do not think that anyone
else has done any customization that would cause this behavior but that is the
only explanation that I can think of.

Thanks for your help though. If I ever figure out what is going on I will be
sure to post my findings.

Amber

--- In dita-users@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Johnson" <chris.johnson@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Amber,
>
> You're on the right track - if you want to specify your page-masters
> manually you need to comment out the import of
> xm_layout_master_overrides.xsl.
>
> However, as you've seen, this affects the header and footer processing.
> From the comments in xm_layout_master_overrides.xsl:
>
> This override assumes:
> 1. the first page is an odd-numbered page
> 2. the last page is an even-numbered page
> 3. region-before and region-after extents will take their @extent
> values from the page margin variables
>
> It's #3. that's probably causing the problems . Check that the
> region-before and region-after extents for *all* the simple-page-masters
> match the values you have specified for $xm.page.margin.top and
> $xm.page.margin.bottom. The "fancy-schmancy" (LoL) header/footer
> processing depends on this relationship.
>
> Your results may vary, depending on what else your customization does.
>
> HTH,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> Chris Johnson
> Solutions Consultant
> JustSystems Canada
>