12.6.25. Emphasizing-Mark Flow Object Class

Flow objects of class emphasizing-mark are used for emphasizing characters, words, or phrases. Each emphasizing-mark shall be placed on a path that is perpendicular to the line-progression direction and that lies before the placement path in the line-progression direction. This path is called the emphasizing-mark placement path.

NOTE 103: The emphasizing-mark flow object class can be used to handle the Kendot feature of Japanese typesetting in a generalized way.

The emphasizing-marks are distributed in the following ways:

For both distributions, the details of the formatting of the flow object shall be affected by the rules identified by the public identifier specified by the mark-style characteristic.

The applicable characteristics are: