literal

literal — Inline text that is some literal value.

Synopsis

Zero or more of:
- text
- phrase (db._phrase)
- replaceable
- Graphic inlines
  inlinemediaobject
- Indexing inlines
  indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
  indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
  indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
- Linking inlines
  anchor
  biblioref
  link
  olink
  xref
- Ubiquitous inlines
  alt
  anchor
  annotation
  biblioref
  indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
  indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
  indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
  inlinemediaobject
  link
  olink
  remark
  subscript
  superscript
  xref

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking 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

This element occurs in 51 elements.

Children

This element contains 16 elements.

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.


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