SECTION 10.8
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Accessibility Support
ture element (indicated by the
MCID
entry in that property list), and the language
specification that applies to the latter content is that of the structure element,
English.
Example 10.21
1 0 obj
<< /Type /StructElem
/S /P
/P …
/K << /Type /MCR
/Pg 2 0 R
/MCID 0
>>
/Lang ( en-US )
>>
endobj
2 0 obj
<< /Type /Page
/Contents 3 0 R
…
>>
endobj
% Structure element
% Structure type
% Parent in structure hierarchy
% Page containing marked-content sequence
% Marked-content identifier
% Language specification for this element
% Page object
% Content stream
3 0 obj
% Page's content stream
<< /Length … >>
stream
/Span << /Lang ( es-MX ) >>
% Start of marked-content sequence
BDC
( Hasta la vista, ) Tj
/P << /MCID 0 >>
% Start of structured marked-content sequence,
BDC
% to which structure element's language applies
( as Arnold would say . ) Tj
EMC
% End of structured marked-content sequence
EMC
% End of marked-content sequence
endstream
endobj
In other words, a language identifier attached to a marked-content sequence with
the
Span
tag specifies the language for all text in the sequence except for nested
marked content that is contained in the structure hierarchy (in which case the
structure element’s language applies) and except where overridden by language
specifications for other nested marked content.