literal
literal — Inline text that is some literal value.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
- text
phrase(db._phrase)replaceable- Graphic inlines
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- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
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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
Children
See Also
command, computeroutput, constant, markup, option, optional, parameter, prompt, replaceable, tag, userinput, varname
Examples
1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> 2 <title>Example literal</title> 4 <para>There are several undocumented settings for <varname>debug</varname>, among them <literal>3.27</literal> to enable a complete trace and 6 <literal>3.8</literal> to debug the spell checker. For a complete list of the possible settings, 8 see <filename class="headerfile">edit/debug.h</filename>.</para> 10 </article>
There are several undocumented settings for debug,
among them 3.27 to enable a complete trace and
3.8 to debug the spell checker. For a complete
list of the possible settings,
see edit/debug.h.