XSL FO Docbook content left margin

Question

I'm using Docbook 5 (docbook-xsl-ns), generating PDF with Apache FOP and I would like to move all text to the left. How can I do it?

Source XML is:

<section>
        <title>Usage</title>
        <programlisting>mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=cz.csob.javor -DarchetypeArtifactId=javor-archetypes-subcomponent -DarchetypeVersion=X.Y.Z</programlisting>
        <para>During the subcomponent project generation you will be asked for the following properties:</para>
        <itemizedlist>
            <listitem>
                <para><emphasis>parent-component-id</emphasis> - ID of the parent component, should be the name of the directory the parent component project is placed in</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>...

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Thanks.

most all appearances of things in docbook are controlled within the file "param.xsl" in the docbook/fo stylesheets. Examine it, find what you need to change and change it. — Kevin Brown, Jun 21 '13 at 22:00

Viacheslav Molokov · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-29T21:54:16.430

Paragraph indentation added by body.start.indent parameter.

You should set value to this parameter with measurement, because it's used in other XSLT templates for calculations. For example, next line will remove paragraph indentation at all:

<xsl:param name="body.start.indent">0pt</xsl:param>

All XSLT customization layer should be something like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
    version="1.0">
    <xsl:import href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/fo/docbook.xsl"/>
    <xsl:param name="body.start.indent">0pt</xsl:param>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Reference documentation for this topic

Also can be used other indentation options:

page.margin.inner - left page margin
page.margin.outer - right page margin

For example next params will make this page layout 3:

<xsl:param name="page.margin.inner">20mm</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="page.margin.outer">10mm</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="page.margin.top">12.5mm</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="page.margin.bottom">15mm</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="region.before.extent">10mm</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="region.after.extent">5mm</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="body.margin.top">15mm</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="body.margin.bottom">15mm</xsl:param>

Thanks @Viacheslav. That does a real nice job for the left margin of body text. What do we use for the right margin on body text? There is no `body.stop.indent`. (My problem seems to be, I don't know what things are called. `body.margin.left` and `body.margin.right` seem most intuitive, but they are wrong). — jww, Mar 16 '18 at 15:26

XSL FO Docbook content left margin

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