So how do I control the top margin?

I want less space between the guide word and the border.

@page 
{
    color: black ;
    counter-increment: page;
    direction: ltr;
    font-style: normal;    
    font-weight: normal;    
    font-size: 11pt ;
    font-family: Times New Roman, Gentium, Georgia, serif;
    line-height: 12pt;
    marks: crop cross ;
    size: 8.5in 11in portrait;      /* this line needed to compute page size */
    text-decoration: none;    
    vertical-align: baseline;    
    background-color: white ;    
    
    @top-left 
    {
        border-bottom: 1pt solid ;
        color: blue;
        content: string(LemmaString, first);
        font-family: Andika Basic, Comic Sans MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif ; font-weight: bold ; 
        font-size:12pt;
        font-weight: bold;
        margin: 0 0 12pt -9pt;
        background-color: pink;
    }

If I change the margin to

        margin: 0 0 0pt -9pt;

I get


How do I get less space between the guide word and the border?

Jim Albright
Wycliffe Bible Translators

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Probably best not to specify margin at all on @top-left, specify vertical-align: bottom and then add some padding.

Thank you.

@top-left 
    {
        border-bottom: 1pt solid ;
        color: blue ;
        content: string(LemmaString, first) ;
        font-family: Andika Basic, Comic Sans MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif ; 
        font-size:12pt ;
        font-weight: bold ;
        margin: 0 0 0pt -9pt ;
        padding: 0 0 2pt 0 ;
        vertical-align: bottom ;    
    }
    

Works like it should.

Jim Albright
Wycliffe Bible Translators

1. top margins.png‎ 10.5 kB