titleabbrev
titleabbrev — The abbreviation of a title.
Synopsis
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Attributes
Description
A titleabbrev holds an abbreviated version of a
title. One common use of
titleabbrev is for the text used in running headers
or footers, when the proper title is too long to be used
conveniently.
Processing expectations
May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context. Abbreviated titles are usually used only in specific contexts, such as headers and footers, and are suppressed everywhere else.
This element occurs in 89 elements.
This element contains 106 elements.
Examples
<chapter xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <info> <title>How to Configure the Menu Subsystem of the Graphical User Interface</title> <titleabbrev>Configuring Menus</titleabbrev> </info> <para>Actual content. </para> </chapter>




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