The invention relates to a method of coding a document for presentation on a presentation apparatus, comprising a step of defining a body section which specifies a structure of said document in terms of document elements, for example chapters and paragraphs. The method according to the invention also comprises a step of defining a time section including a time constraint which acts upon document elements in the structure section, and a step of linking the time section with the structure section to establish the coding of the document. The time section describes the temporal behavior of the document elements in the body section.