foreignphrase

foreignphrase — A word or phrase in a language other than the primary language of the document.

Synopsis

Description

The foreignphrase element can be used to mark up the text of a foreign word or phrase. “Foreign” in this context means that it is a language other than the primary language of the document and is not intended to be pejorative in any way.

Processing expectations

A foreignphrase is often given special typographic treatment, such as italics.

Parents [+]

This element occurs in 54 elements.

Children [+]

This element contains 41 elements.

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <title>Example foreignphrase</title>
    
  4 <para>Like so many others, it became a <foreignphrase>de facto</foreignphrase>
    standard.
  6 </para>
    
  8 </article>

Like so many others, it became a de facto standard.

Last revised by Norman Walsh on 6 Jun 2011 (git hash: 6ffcc7640bbc5f852a318e452c9f210f03292cb9)