DocBook 5.1: The Definitive Guide  (Version 1.5.3 for DocBook 5.1)

honorific

honorific — The title of a person.

Synopsis

honorific ::= [-]

Description

An honorific occurs in the name of an individual. It is the honorific title of the individual, such as “Dr.,” “Mr.,” or “Ms.”

Processing expectations

Formatted inline. In an address, this element may inherit the verbatim qualities of an address.

On some systems, honorific may generate the trailing period automatically.

Parents

These elements contain honorific: bibliomixed, bibliomset, personname.

Children

The following elements occur in honorific: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, coref, date, emphasis (db._emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), quote (db._quote), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.