## ISO Standards Tag Set (ISOSTS) version 0.5: A customization of NISO JATS version 0.4

#### International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

# <preformat>

# Preformatted Text

Text in which spaces, tabs, and line feeds must be preserved. Content is typically displayed in monofont to preserve character alignment.

## Attributes

##### id Identifier

##### orientation Orientation

##### originator Originator

##### position Position

##### preformat-type Type of Preformatted Text

##### specific-use Specific Use

##### xml:lang Language

##### xml:space Space

## Model Description

Any combination of:

- Text, numbers, or special characters
- <alt-text> Title, Alternate
- <long-desc> Long Description
- <email> Email Address
- <ext-link> External Link
- <uri> Uniform Resource Indicator (URI)
- <attrib> Attribution
- <permissions> Permissions
- <bold> Bold
- <italic> Italic
- <monospace> Monospace Text (Typewriter Text)
- <num> Number
- <overline> Overline
- <roman> Roman
- <sans-serif> Sans Serif
- <sc> Small Caps
- <strike> Strike Through
- <underline> Underline
- <abbrev> Abbreviation or Acronym
- <milestone-end> Milestone End
- <milestone-start> Milestone Start
- <named-content> Named Special (Subject) Content
- <styled-content> Styled Special (Subject) Content
- <sub> Subscript
- <sup> Superscript

### This element may be contained in:

<ack>, <alternatives>, <app>, <app-group>, <bio>, <body>, <boxed-text>, <chem-struct>, <chem-struct-wrap>, <disp-formula>, <disp-quote>, <fig>, <glossary>, <license-p>, <named-content>, <non-normative-example>, <non-normative-note>, <notes>, <p>, <ref-list>, <sec>, <styled-content>, <supplementary-material>, <table-wrap>, <td>, <term>, <term-display>, <term-sec>, <th>

### Example

    ...
    <body>
    <disp-quote>
    <preformat>... who would fardels bear,
    To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
    But that the dread of something after death,
    The undiscover&rsquo;d country from whose bourn
    No traveller returns, puzzles the will
    And makes us rather bear those ills we have
    Than fly to others that we know not of?</preformat>
    <attrib>William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III,
    Scene IV</attrib>
    </disp-quote>
    <p>Shakespeare well understood the underpinning of
    our society&rsquo;s tenacious need to cling to life:
    the fear of death, the fear of the unknown.  Yes, we
    acknowledge death is part of nature&rsquo;s cycle,
    but even as we do so, we struggle ...</p>
    <sec>...</sec>
    </body>
    ...

## Module

JATS-display0.ent

## ISO Standards Tag Set (ISOSTS) version 0.5: A customization of NISO JATS version 0.4

#### Version of September 2011