colophon
colophon — Text at the back of a book describing facts about its production.
Synopsis
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- Sequence of:
- One of:
- One of:
- Sequence of:
- One or more of:
bridgeheaddialoguedramaformalgrouppoetryremarkrevhistorystagedir- Indexing inlines
- Admonition elements
- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
- List elements
- Paragraph elements
- Publishing elements
- Technical elements
- Verbatim elements
- Zero or more of:
- One or more of:
- Sequence of:
- Zero or more of:
bridgeheaddialoguedramaformalgrouppoetryremarkrevhistorystagedir- Indexing inlines
- Admonition elements
- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
- List elements
- Paragraph elements
- Publishing elements
- Technical elements
- Verbatim elements
- One or more of:
- Zero or more of:
- Sequence of:
- One of:
Attributes
Additional Constraints
- If this element is the root element, it must have a version attribute.
Description
A colophon, if present, almost always occurs at
the very end of a book. It contains factual information about the book,
especially about its production, and includes details about typographic
style, the fonts used, the paper used, and perhaps the binding method of
the book.
Font geeks like Norm think every book should have one.
Processing expectations
Formatted as a displayed block.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- label
Specifies an identifying string for presentation purposes
- status
Identifies the editorial or publication status of the element on which it occurs
Children
The following elements occur in colophon: address, anchor, bibliolist, blockquote, bridgehead, calloutlist, caution, danger, dialogue, drama, epigraph, equation, example, figure, formalgroup, formalpara, glosslist, important, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), informalequation, informalexample, informalfigure, informaltable, itemizedlist, literallayout, mediaobject, note, orderedlist, para, poetry, procedure, qandaset, remark, revhistory, sidebar, simpara, simplelist, simplesect, stagedir, subtitle, table, task, tip, title, titleabbrev, variablelist, warning.
Examples
<book xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example colophon</title>
<colophon>
<para>Draft versions of the first edition of this book were produced
with the DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets. Final production was performed
with Troff.</para>
<para>XSLT and XSL were used to produce the second edition.</para>
</colophon>
</book>