formalpara

formalpara — A paragraph with a title.

Synopsis

formalpara ::=

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

No additional attributes.

Additional Constraints

  • If this element is the root element, it must have a version attribute.

Description

Formal paragraphs have a title.

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block. The title of a formalpara is often rendered as a run-in head.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

Parents

These elements contain formalpara: abstract, acknowledgements, annotation, answer, appendix, article, bibliodiv, bibliography, bibliolist, blockquote, callout, calloutlist, caption (db.caption), caution, chapter, colophon, constraintdef, cover, danger, dedication, entry, epigraph, example, figure, footnote, glossary, glossdef, glossdiv, glosslist, important, index, indexdiv, informalexample, informalfigure, itemizedlist, legalnotice, listitem, meta (db.meta.content), msgexplan, msgtext, note, orderedlist, partintro, personblurb, preface, printhistory, 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 formalpara: indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), para, title, titleabbrev.

See Also

Related elements: para, simpara.

Examples

 1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
   |<title>Example formalpara</title>
   | 
   |<formalpara><title>This Paragraph Has a Title</title>
 5 |<para>This is a test.  This is only a test.  Had this been a real
   |example, it would have made more sense.  Or less.
   |</para>
   |</formalpara>
   | 
10 |</article>

This Paragraph Has a TitleThis is a test. This is only a test. Had this been a real example, it would have made more sense. Or less.