PD ISO/IEC TR 24754-2:2011 PDF

1   Scope This part of ISO/IEC 24754 provides guidelines in the writing of formatting specifications targeted for document rendering systems supporting functionality described by ISO/IEC 24754‑1. There is no scope of conformance constraints against which the use of these guidelines are measured. Possible user requirements for publishing layouts are unbounded. It is the user's obligation to describe their formatting requirements to be fulfilled by a developer or a compositor using a document rendering system. Using incomplete formatting specifications can delay achieving the desired rendered result. This part of is a specification of questions for the writer of a formatting specification. It is assumed that the writer of a formatting specification is unaware of the needs of the stylesheet writer in meeting the needs of the specification writer. For a writer aware of such needs, this part of is a useful checklist of the issues to be considered. This part of outlines various considerations users should assess when analysing their rendering expectations. Properties described by this part of should be specified in sufficient detail such that a developer or compositor has the information required to engage the necessary facilities in the document rendering system. This part of does not presume any particular stylesheet language with which to specify layout and formatting properties. Various stylesheet languages support different degrees of functionality described herein. Not all languages can assume to offer control over the prop...