bridgehead

bridgehead — A free-floating heading.

Synopsis

bridgehead ::= [-]

Attributes

Common attributes.

Additional attributes:

  • At most one of:
    • renderas (enumeration)
      • “sect1”
      • “sect2”
      • “sect3”
      • “sect4”
      • “sect5”
    • All or none of:
      • renderas (enumeration)
        • “other”
      • otherrenderas (NMTOKEN)

Description

Some documents, usually legacy documents, use headings that are not tied to the normal sectional hierarchy. These headings may be represented in DocBook with the bridgehead element.

A bridgehead may also be useful in fiction or journalistic works that don’t have a nested hierarchy.

Processing expectations

A bridgehead is formatted as a block, using the same display properties as the section heading which it masquerades as. The renderas attribute controls which heading it mimics.

Bridge heads are not numbered, even when they are rendered as headings that are otherwise numbered.

Attributes

Common attributes.

otherrenderas

Identifies the nature of the non-standard rendering

renderas

Indicates how the bridge head should be rendered

Enumerated values:
“sect1”

Render as a first-level section

“sect2”

Render as a second-level section

“sect3”

Render as a third-level section

“sect4”

Render as a fourth-level section

“sect5”

Render as a fifth-level section

renderas

Indicates how the bridge head should be rendered

Enumerated values:
“other”

Identifies a non-standard rendering

Parents [+]

This element occurs in 75 elements.

Children [+]

This element contains 106 elements.
Last revised by Norman Walsh on (git hash: 351aa236e3ae9c8073a8d4a056947589e9afb53b 6ffcc7640bbc5f852a318e452c9f210f03292cb9)