computeroutput
computeroutput — Data, generally text, displayed or presented by a computer.
Synopsis
computeroutput ::=
- Zero or more of:
- text
- Computer-output inlines
- Graphic inlines
- Markup inlines
- Operating system inlines
- Technical inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
- User-input inlines
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
These elements contain computeroutput
: caption
(db.html.caption), citetitle
, computeroutput
, emphasis
, entry
, html:button
, html:label
, html:legend
, link
(db.link), literallayout
, para
, phrase
(db.phrase), programlisting
, quote
, rddl:resource
, subtitle
, summary
, td
, term
, th
, title
, titleabbrev
, userinput
.
Children
The following elements occur in computeroutput
: text, command
, computeroutput
, email
, filename
, inlinemediaobject
, literal
, option
, rddl:resource
, 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.