literal
literal — Inline text that is some literal value.
Synopsis
literal ::= ![[-]](figs/web/nav/down.gif)
![[+]](figs/web/nav/right.gif)
- Zero or more of:
- text
- Graphic inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
abbrevacronymaltanchorbibliorefcorefdateemphasis(db._emphasis)firstterm(db._firstterm)footnotefootnoterefforeignphrase(db._foreignphrase)glossterm(db._glossterm)indexterm(db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm(db.indexterm.singular)indexterm(db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobjectlinkolinkphrase(db._phrase)quote(db._quote)remarksubscriptsuperscripttrademarkwordaswordxref
Attributes
Description
A literal is some specific piece of data, taken
literally, from a computer system.
The sorts of things that constitute literals vary by domain.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline. A literal is frequently distinguished
typographically and literal is often used wherever that
typographic presentation is desired.
Parents
These elements contain literal: bridgehead, citation, citetitle, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm (db.firstterm), glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), line, link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, quote (db.quote), remark, secondary, see, seealso, simpara, subtitle, term, termdef, tertiary, title, titleabbrev.
Children
The following elements occur in literal: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, 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, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.
See Also
command, computeroutput, constant, markup, option, optional, parameter, prompt, replaceable, tag, userinput, varname
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example literal</title>
<para>There are several undocumented settings for <varname>debug</varname>,
among them <literal>3.27</literal> to enable a complete trace and
<literal>3.8</literal> to debug the spell checker. For a complete
list of the possible settings,
see <filename class="headerfile">edit/debug.h</filename>.</para>
</article>
There are several undocumented settings for debug,
among them 3.27 to enable a complete trace and
3.8 to debug the spell checker. For a complete
list of the possible settings,
see edit/debug.h.