12.6.24. Multi-line-inline-note Flow Object Class

Flow objects of class multi-line-inline-note are used for placing a note inline. A multi-line-inline-note is inlined. Typically, a multi-line-inline-note consists of the following:

  1. an open parenthesis in approximately the same size as the glyphs before the note;

  2. two lines placed one before the other in the line-progression direction with the contents in a smaller size than the surrounding glyphs; the content shall be used to fill the first line and then the second line so that the length of the two lines is approximately equal;

  3. a close parenthesis in the same size as the open parenthesis.

The multi-line-inline-note may be broken between two or more lines. In this case, the contents shall be used to fill each fragment of the multi-line-inline-note in turn. For example, a character occurring on the second line of the first part of a broken multi-line-inline-note shall have occurred in the content before a character that occurs in the first line of the second part of the note. In addition, the breaking may be affected by the inline-note-style: characteristic.

This flow object has a single principal port containing the content of the inline note. It shall accept any inlined flow objects.

NOTE 101: Usually, a smaller point-size is specified for the content.

The applicable characteristics are: