computeroutput
computeroutput — Data, generally text, displayed or presented by a computer.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
- text
 - Computer-output inlines 
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 - Graphic inlines 
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 - Indexing inlines 
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 - Linking inlines 
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 - Markup inlines 
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 - Operating system inlines 
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 - Technical inlines 
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 - Ubiquitous inlines 
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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.
This element occurs in 51 elements.
This element contains 39 elements.
See Also
constant, envar, filename, lineannotation, literal, literallayout, markup, option, optional, parameter, programlisting, prompt, replaceable, screen, screenshot, synopsis, systemitem, tag, userinput, varname
Examples
1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> 2 <title>Example computeroutput</title> 4 <para>The output from the date command, <computeroutput>Sun Nov 16, 1997 21:03:29</computeroutput>, 6 uses fixed-width fields so that it can easily be parsed. </para> 8 </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.




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