mathphrase

mathphrase — A mathematical phrase that can be represented with ordinary text and a small amount of markup.

Synopsis

mathphrase ::=

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

No additional attributes.

Description

A mathphrase is a simple, inline equation, one that can be represented using ordinary text, symbols, subscripts, and superscripts. A good example is: E=mc2.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

Parents

These elements contain mathphrase: equation, informalequation, inlineequation.

Children

The following elements occur in mathphrase: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, biblioref, coref, date, emphasis (db._emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), quote (db._quote), remark, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.

Examples

 1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
   |<title>Example equation</title>
   | 
   |<equation xml:id="eq.fermatphrase">
 5 |  <title>Fermat's Last Theorem</title>
   |  <mathphrase>x<superscript>n</superscript>
   |+ y<superscript>n</superscript>
   |≠ z<superscript>n</superscript>
   |∀ n ≠ 2</mathphrase>
10 |</equation>
   | 
   |</article>
xn + yn ≠ zn ∀ n ≠ 2
Equation 1Fermat's Last Theorem