SECTION 10.5
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Marked Content
TABLE 10.7 Marked-content operators
OPERANDS
OPERATOR
DESCRIPTION
tag
MP
Designate a marked-content point.
tag
is a name object indicating the role or
significance of the point.
Designate a marked-content point with an associated property list.
tag
is a name
object indicating the role or significance of the point.
properties
is either an in-
line dictionary containing the property list or a name object associated with it in
the
Properties
subdictionary of the current resource dictionary (see Section
Begin a marked-content sequence terminated by a balancing
EMC
operator.
tag
is a name object indicating the role or significance of the sequence.
Begin a marked-content sequence with an associated property list, terminated
by a balancing
EMC
operator.
tag
is a name object indicating the role or signifi-
cance of the sequence.
properties
is either an inline dictionary containing the
property list or a name object associated with it in the
Properties
subdictionary
of the current resource dictionary (see Section 10.5.1, “Property Lists”).
End a marked-content sequence begun by a
BMC
or
BDC
operator.
tag properties
DP
tag
BMC
tag properties
BDC
—
EMC
When the marked-content operators
BMC
,
BDC
, and
EMC
are combined with the
text object operators
BT
and
ET
(see Section 5.3, “Text Objects”), each pair of
matching operators (
BMC
…
EMC
,
BDC
…
EMC
, or
BT
…
ET
) must be properly (sep-
arately) nested. Therefore, the sequences
BMC
BT
…
ET
EMC
BT
and
ET
BMC
…
EMC
are valid, but
BMC
BT
…
EMC
BT
BT
and
BMC
…
ET
EMC
are not valid.