diff --git a/src/lib/import/styleResolver.ts b/src/lib/import/styleResolver.ts
index eec8f49..a9cf836 100644
--- a/src/lib/import/styleResolver.ts
+++ b/src/lib/import/styleResolver.ts
@@ -587,12 +587,11 @@ export class StyleResolver {
       const height = lengthToCm(props.getAttributeNS(NS.svg, 'height'))
         ?? lengthToCm(props.getAttributeNS(NS.fo, 'min-height'))
         ?? 0;
-      // style:dynamic-spacing="true" makes the header↔body gap collapsible (the header
-      // grows into it), so the body isn't pushed down by it. Only fixed (non-dynamic)
-      // spacing is added to the body margin.
-      const dynamic = props.getAttributeNS(NS.style, 'dynamic-spacing') === 'true';
-      const spacing = dynamic ? 0 : (lengthToCm(props.getAttributeNS(NS.fo, spacingAttr)) ?? 0);
-      return height + spacing;
+      // The zone's gap to the body is laid out *inside* that height, not added to it
+      // (probed: a footer's fo:margin-top moves its text down the band and leaves the
+      // last body line where it was; style:dynamic-spacing changes neither side).
+      const spacing = lengthToCm(props.getAttributeNS(NS.fo, spacingAttr)) ?? 0;
+      return Math.max(height, spacing);
     };
 
     return {
diff --git a/tests/roundtrip.test.ts b/tests/roundtrip.test.ts
index c14a8e0..c54ea5d 100644
--- a/tests/roundtrip.test.ts
+++ b/tests/roundtrip.test.ts
@@ -1075,9 +1075,10 @@ describe('Leg 4: foreign header/footer → importOdt', () => {
     check('foreign hf: page-number field', hPara?.content?.some((n: N) => n.type === 'pageNumber'), hPara);
     check('foreign hf: page-count field', hPara?.content?.some((n: N) => n.type === 'pageCount'), hPara);
     check('foreign hf: footer text', fhf.footer?.content?.[0]?.content?.[0]?.text === 'Confidential', fhf.footer);
-    // Body top margin = page margin (1.5) + header height (0.8) + spacing (0.3) = 2.6.
-    check('foreign hf: body top margin reconstructed', Math.abs((fhf.margins?.top ?? 0) - 2.6) < 0.02, fhf.margins);
-    check('foreign hf: body bottom margin reconstructed', Math.abs((fhf.margins?.bottom ?? 0) - 2.4) < 0.02, fhf.margins);
+    // Body top margin = page margin (1.5) + the header band (0.8): its 0.3 spacing to
+    // the body is laid out inside that height, not added to it (styleResolver.ts).
+    check('foreign hf: body top margin reconstructed', Math.abs((fhf.margins?.top ?? 0) - 2.3) < 0.02, fhf.margins);
+    check('foreign hf: body bottom margin reconstructed', Math.abs((fhf.margins?.bottom ?? 0) - 2.1) < 0.02, fhf.margins);
     // header-first is a supported variant (Word "Different First Page" / ODF header-first).
     check('foreign hf: first-page header parsed', fhf.headerFirst?.content?.[0]?.content?.[0]?.text === 'Cover', fhf.headerFirst);
     check('foreign hf: different-first-page flag set', fhf.differentFirstPage === true, fhf.differentFirstPage);