CSS-based DITA to PDF problem with columns

[Ecumaster]

Hello everyone,

I created a document with a two-column attribute set like this:

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*[class ~= "topic/topic"][outputclass ~= "two-columns"] {
    page: two-columns
} 
@page two-columns{
    font-size: 10pt;
    column-count: 2; 
    column-gap: 0.1in;
    line-height: 1em; 
}

Everything works fine, except the fact that when I use column-span: all for h1 (topic title) the first column starts much lower than expected. Any idea what could be wrong? I can't figure out what is the problem. Thanks.

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/Wojtek

[julien_lacour]

Hello Wojtek,

You can add the vertical-align property in the topic rule to fix the display:

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*[class ~= "topic/topic"][outputclass ~= "two-columns"] {
  page: two-columns;
  vertical-align: top;
}
@page two-columns {
  font-size: 10pt;
  column-count: 2;
  column-gap: 0.1in;
  line-height: 1em;
}

Regards,
Julien

[Ecumaster]

Thank you for the replay.
there is still a problem, but I found out that h1 paragraph spacing is huge, so I guess I need to make it smaller.