tertiary
tertiary — A tertiary word or phrase in an index term.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
- text
- Bibliography inlines
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- Error inlines
- Graphic inlines
- GUI inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Keyboard inlines
- Linking inlines
- Markup inlines
- Math inlines
- Object-oriented programming inlines
- Operating system inlines
- Product inlines
- Programming inlines
- Publishing inlines
- Technical inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
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Description
A tertiary element contains a third-level word
or phrase in an indexterm. The text of a
tertiary term is less significant than the
primary and secondary terms for
sorting and display purposes.
DocBook does not define any additional levels. You cannot use
indexterms to construct indexes with more than three
levels without extending the schema.
In indexterms, you can only have one primary,
secondary, and tertiary term. If you want to index multiple tertiary
terms for the same primary and secondary, you must repeat the primary
and secondary in another indexterm. You cannot place
several tertiarys in the same primary.
Processing expectations
Suppressed. This element provides data for processing but is not rendered in the primary flow of text.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- sortas
Specifies the string by which the term is to be sorted; if unspecified, the term content is used
Parents
These elements contain tertiary: indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange).
Children
See Also
indexentry, indexterm, primary, primaryie, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, tertiaryie