computeroutput
computeroutput — Data, generally text, displayed or presented by a computer.
Synopsis
computeroutput ::= × ⏵
- Zero or more of:
- text
- Computer-output inlines ⏵
- Graphic inlines ⏵
- Indexing inlines ⏵
- Linking inlines ⏵
- Markup inlines ⏵
- Operating system inlines ⏵
- Technical inlines ⏵
- Ubiquitous inlines ⏵
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
No additional attributes.
Description
A computeroutput
identifies lines of text
generated by a computer program (messages, results, or other
output).
Note that computeroutput
is not a verbatim
environment, but an inline.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline. It’s often presented in a fixed-width font.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- any attribute
Any attribute in any other explicit namespace
Parents
55 elements contain computeroutput
. × ⏵
Children
53 elements occur in computeroutput
. × ⏵
See Also
Related elements: constant
, envar
, filename
, lineannotation
, literal
, literallayout
, markup
, option
, optional
, parameter
, programlisting
, prompt
, replaceable
, screen
, screenshot
, synopsis
, systemitem
, tag
, userinput
, varname
.
Examples
1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
|<title>Example computeroutput</title>
||
<para>The output from the date command,
5 |<computeroutput>Sun Nov 16, 1997 21:03:29</computeroutput>,
|uses fixed-width fields so that it can easily be parsed.
|</para>
||
</article>
The output from the date command,
Sun Nov 16, 1997 21:03:29
,
uses fixed-width fields so that it can easily be parsed.