screen
screen — Text that a user sees or might see on a computer screen.
Synopsis
- Sequence of:
info
? (db.titleforbidden.info)- One of:
- Zero or more of:
- text
lineannotation
- Bibliography inlines
- Computer-output inlines
- Error inlines
- Graphic inlines
- GUI inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Keyboard inlines
- Linking inlines
- Markup inlines
- Math inlines
- Object-oriented programming inlines
- Operating system inlines
- Product inlines
- Programming inlines
- Publishing inlines
- Technical inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
- User-input inlines
textobject
- Zero or more of:
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
Additional attributes:
- continuation (enumeration)
- “continues”
- “restarts”
- linenumbering (enumeration)
- “numbered”
- “unnumbered”
- startinglinenumber (integer)
- language
- xml:space (enumeration)
- “preserve”
- width (nonNegativeInteger)
Description
A screen
is a verbatim environment for
displaying text that the user might see on a computer terminal. It is
often used to display the results of a command.
Having less specific semantic overtones, screen
is often used wherever a verbatim presentation is desired, but the
semantic of programlisting
is inappropriate.
Processing expectations
This element is displayed “verbatim”; whitespace and line breaks
within this element are significant. The content of a
screen
element is usually displayed in a
fixed-width font.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- continuation
Determines whether line numbering continues from the previous element or restarts.
Enumerated values: “continues” Line numbering continues from the immediately preceding element with the same name.
“restarts” Line numbering restarts (begins at 1, usually).
- language
Identifies the language (i.e. programming language) of the verbatim content.
- linenumbering
Determines whether lines are numbered.
Enumerated values: “numbered” Lines are numbered.
“unnumbered” Lines are not numbered.
- startinglinenumber
Specifies the initial line number.
- width
Specifies the width (in characters) of the element
- xml:space
Can be used to indicate explicitly that whitespace in the verbatim environment is preserved. Whitespace must always be preserved in verbatim environments whether this attribute is specified or not.
Enumerated values: “preserve” Whitespace must be preserved.
See Also
computeroutput
, lineannotation
, literallayout
, programlisting
, screenshot
, synopsis
, userinput
Examples
1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> 2 <title>Example screen</title> 4 <screen> Volume in drive C is SYSTEM Serial number is 2350:717C 6 Directory of C:\ 8 10/17/97 9:04 <DIR> bin 10/16/97 14:11 <DIR> DOS 10 10/16/97 14:40 <DIR> Program Files 10/16/97 14:46 <DIR> TEMP 12 10/17/97 9:04 <DIR> tmp 10/16/97 14:37 <DIR> WINNT 14 10/16/97 14:25 119 AUTOEXEC.BAT 2/13/94 6:21 54,619 COMMAND.COM 16 10/16/97 14:25 115 CONFIG.SYS 11/16/97 17:17 61,865,984 pagefile.sys 18 2/13/94 6:21 9,349 WINA20.386 </screen> 20 </article>
1 2 Volume in drive C is SYSTEM Serial number is 2350:717C Directory of C:\ 4 10/17/97 9:04 <DIR> bin 6 10/16/97 14:11 <DIR> DOS 10/16/97 14:40 <DIR> Program Files 8 10/16/97 14:46 <DIR> TEMP 10/17/97 9:04 <DIR> tmp 10 10/16/97 14:37 <DIR> WINNT 10/16/97 14:25 119 AUTOEXEC.BAT 12 2/13/94 6:21 54,619 COMMAND.COM 10/16/97 14:25 115 CONFIG.SYS 14 11/16/97 17:17 61,865,984 pagefile.sys 2/13/94 6:21 9,349 WINA20.386