computeroutput

computeroutput — Data, generally text, displayed or presented by a computer.

Synopsis

Parents
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computeroutput ::= × ⏵

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking 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.

Parents

18 elements contain computeroutput. × ⏵

These elements contain computeroutput: caption (db.html.caption), citetitle, computeroutput, emphasis, entry, link, literallayout, para, phrase (db.phrase), programlisting, quote, subtitle, td, term, th, title, titleabbrev, userinput.

Children

12 elements occur in computeroutput. × ⏵

The following elements occur in computeroutput: text, command, computeroutput, email, filename, inlinemediaobject, literal, option, replaceable, subscript, superscript, systemitem, userinput.

See Also

Related elements: filename, lineannotation, literal, literallayout, option, programlisting, replaceable, systemitem, userinput.

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.