The BRC is a substructure of the CHP, PAP, PIC, SEP, TAP and TC. See also the obsolete BRC10 structure.
| b10 | b16 | field | type | size | bitfield | comments |
| 0 | 0 | dptLineWidth | short | :8 | 00FF | width of a single line in 1/8 pt, max of 32 pt. |
| brcType | short | :8 | FF00 | border type code: 0 none 1 single 2 thick 3 double 5 hairline 6 dot 7 dash large gap 8 dot dash 9 dot dot dash 10 triple 11 thin-thick small gap 12 thick-thin small gap 13 thin-thick-thin small gap 14 thin-thick medium gap 15 thick-thin medium gap 16 thin-thick-thin medium gap 17 thin-thick large gap 18 thick-thin large gap 19 thin-thick-thin large gap 20 wave 21 double wave 22 dash small gap 23 dash dot stroked 24 emboss 3D 25 engrave 3D codes 64 – 230 represent border art types and are used only for page borders. | ||
| 2 | 2 | ico | short | :8 | 00FF | color code (see chp.ico) |
| dptSpace | short | :5 | 1F00 | width of space to maintain between border and text within border. Must be 0 when BRC is a substructure of TC. Stored in points. | ||
| fShadow | short | :1 | 2000 | when 1, border is drawn with shadow. Must be 0 when BRC is a substructure of the TC | ||
| fFrame | short | :1 | 4000 | |||
| short | :1 | 8000 | reserved |
cbBRC (count of bytes of BRC) is 4.