    | DocBook: The Definitive Guide 2.0.17 (Alpha) |
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$Date: 2002-06-12 07:19:37 -0400 (Wed, 12 Jun 2002) $
mousebutton — The conventional name of a mouse button
mousebutton ::= (#PCDATA|replaceable|inlinegraphic|inlinemediaobject|indexterm|beginpage)*
Name | Type | Default | |||
| moreinfo |
| "none" |
The MouseButton element identifies the conventional name
of a mouse button. Because mouse buttons are not physically labelled,
the name is just that, a convention. Adding explicit markup for the
naming of mouse buttons allow easier translation from one convention
to another and might allow an online system to adapt to right- or left-handed usage.
Formatted inline. The MoreInfo attribute
can help generate a link or query to retrieve additional information.
These elements contain mousebutton:
action, application, attribution, bibliomisc, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, code, command, computeroutput, database, emphasis, entry, filename, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcparams, funcsynopsisinfo, function, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, hardware, interfacename, keycap, keycombo, lineannotation, link, literal, literallayout, lotentry, member, msgaud, olink, option, optional, para, parameter, phrase, primary, primaryie, productname, programlisting, property, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, remark, screen, screeninfo, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, shortcut, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, systemitem, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocback, tocentry, tocfront, trademark, ulink, userinput.
The following elements occur in mousebutton:
beginpage, indexterm, inlinegraphic, inlinemediaobject, replaceable.
If MoreInfo is set to RefEntry,
it implies that a RefEntry exists which further describes the
MouseButton.
accel, guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, keycap, keycode, keycombo, keysym, menuchoice, shortcut.
<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>
Select a region of text by dragging the mouse pointer with the
<mousebutton>left</mousebutton> mouse button depressed. Copy the
selected text to a new location by placing the mouse pointer at the
desired position and pressing the <mousebutton>middle</mousebutton>
button.
</para>Select a region of text by dragging the mouse pointer with the mouse button depressed. Copy the selected text to a new location by placing the mouse pointer at the desired position and pressing the button.
For additional examples, see also
keycombo.
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| modifier | | msg |