• direction: is one of the symbols left-to-right or right-to-left. It shall be parallel to the writing-mode of the paragraph. This characteristic is not inherited and shall be specified. |
• language: is #f or a symbol specifying the ISO 639 language code in upper-case. This affects line composition in a system-dependent way. The initial value is #f. |
• country: is #f or a symbol specifying the ISO 3166 country code in upper-case. This affects line composition in a system-dependent way. The initial value is #f. |
• inhibit-line-breaks?: is a boolean specifying whether line breaks shall be inhibited before and after each area produced by this flow object. This applies only to line breaks introduced by the formatter to make lines fit in the available space. The initial value is #f. |