literal
literal — Inline text that is some literal value.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
- text
replaceable
- Graphic inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
abbrev
acronym
alt
anchor
annotation
biblioref
coref
date
emphasis
(db._emphasis)firstterm
(db._firstterm)footnote
footnoteref
foreignphrase
(db._foreignphrase)glossterm
(db._glossterm)indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular)indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobject
link
olink
phrase
(db._phrase)quote
(db._quote)remark
subscript
superscript
trademark
wordasword
xref
Attributes
Description
A literal
is some specific piece of data, taken
literally, from a computer system.
It is similar in some ways to
userinput
and computeroutput
, but is somewhat
more of a general classification.
The sorts of things that constitute literals vary by domain.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline. A literal is frequently distinguished
typographically and literal
is often used wherever that
typographic presentation is desired.
See Also
command
, computeroutput
, constant
, markup
, option
, optional
, parameter
, prompt
, replaceable
, tag
, userinput
, varname
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example literal</title> <para>There are several undocumented settings for <varname>debug</varname>, among them <literal>3.27</literal> to enable a complete trace and <literal>3.8</literal> to debug the spell checker. For a complete list of the possible settings, see <filename class="headerfile">edit/debug.h</filename>.</para> </article>
There are several undocumented settings for debug
,
among them 3.27
to enable a complete trace and
3.8
to debug the spell checker. For a complete
list of the possible settings,
see edit/debug.h
.