bridgehead
bridgehead — A free-floating heading.
Synopsis
bridgehead ::= ![[x]](figs/web/nav/delete.gif)
![[+]](figs/web/nav/right.gif)
![[-]](figs/web/nav/down.gif)
- Zero or more of:
- text
- Bibliography inlines
- 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
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
Additional attributes:
- At most one of:
- renderas (enumeration)
- “sect1”
- “sect2”
- “sect3”
- “sect4”
- “sect5”
- All or none of:
- renderas (enumeration)
- “other”
- otherrenderas (NMTOKEN)
- renderas (enumeration)
- renderas (enumeration)
Description
Some documents, usually legacy documents, use headings that are
not tied to the normal sectional hierarchy. These headings may be
represented in DocBook with the bridgehead element.
A bridgehead may also be useful in fiction or
journalistic works that don’t have a nested hierarchy.
Processing expectations
A bridgehead is formatted as a block, using the same
display properties as the section heading which it masquerades as. The
renderas attribute controls which heading
it mimics.
Bridge heads are not numbered, even when they are rendered as headings that are otherwise numbered.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- otherrenderas
Identifies the nature of the non-standard rendering
- renderas
Indicates how the bridge head should be rendered
Enumerated values: “sect1” Render as a first-level section
“sect2” Render as a second-level section
“sect3” Render as a third-level section
“sect4” Render as a fourth-level section
“sect5” Render as a fifth-level section
Parents
These elements contain bridgehead: acknowledgements, annotation, answer, appendix, article, bibliodiv, bibliography, bibliolist, blockquote, callout, calloutlist, caption (db.caption), caution, chapter, colophon, constraintdef, cover, dedication, entry, example, figure, footnote, glossary, glossdef, glossdiv, glosslist, important, index, indexdiv, informalexample, informalfigure, itemizedlist, legalnotice, listitem, msgexplan, msgtext, note, orderedlist, para, partintro, preface, procedure, qandadiv, qandaset, question, refsect1, refsect2, refsect3, refsection, refsynopsisdiv, result, revdescription, sect1, sect2, sect3, sect4, sect5, section, setindex, sidebar, simplesect, step, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, td, textobject, th, tip, toc, tocdiv, topic, variablelist, warning.
Children
The following elements occur in bridgehead: text, abbrev, accel, acronym, alt, anchor, annotation, application, author, biblioref, citation, citebiblioid, citerefentry, citetitle, classname, code, command, computeroutput, constant, coref, database, date, editor, email, emphasis (db._emphasis), emphasis (db.emphasis), envar, errorcode, errorname, errortext, errortype, exceptionname, filename, firstterm (db._firstterm), firstterm (db.firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), function, glossterm (db._glossterm), glossterm (db.glossterm), guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, hardware, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), initializer, inlineequation, inlinemediaobject, interfacename, jobtitle, keycap, keycode, keycombo, keysym, link, literal, markup, menuchoice, methodname, modifier, mousebutton, nonterminal, olink, ooclass, ooexception, oointerface, option, optional, org, orgname, package, parameter, person, personname, phrase (db._phrase), phrase (db.phrase), productname, productnumber, prompt, property, quote (db._quote), quote (db.quote), remark, replaceable, returnvalue, shortcut, subscript, superscript, symbol, systemitem, tag, termdef, token, trademark, type, uri, userinput, varname, wordasword, xref.