literal
literal — Inline text that is some literal value.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
- text
phrase
(db._phrase)replaceable
- Graphic inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
Attributes
Description
A literal
is some specific piece of data, taken
literally, from a computer system.
It is similar in some ways to
userinput
and computeroutput
, but is somewhat
more of a general classification.
The sorts of things that constitute literals vary by domain.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline. A literal is frequently distinguished
typographically and literal
is often used wherever that
typographic presentation is desired.
Parents
These elements contain literal
: caption
(db.html.caption), citetitle
, computeroutput
, emphasis
, entry
, link
, literallayout
, orgdiv
, para
, phrase
(db.phrase), programlisting
, quote
, subtitle
, td
, term
, th
, title
, titleabbrev
, userinput
.
Children
The following elements occur in literal: text, inlinemediaobject
, phrase
(db._phrase), replaceable
, subscript
, superscript
.
See Also
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example literal</title>
<para>There are several undocumented settings for <varname>debug</varname>,
among them <literal>3.27</literal> to enable a complete trace and
<literal>3.8</literal> to debug the spell checker. For a complete
list of the possible settings,
see <filename class="headerfile">edit/debug.h</filename>.</para>
</article>