computeroutput

computeroutput — Data, generally text, displayed or presented by a computer

Synopsis

Description

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.

Children

The following elements occur in computeroutput: text, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, co, code, command, computeroutput, constant, email, envar, filename, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, literal, markup, nonterminal, olink, option, optional, package, prompt, property, remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, symbol, systemitem, tag, termdef, token, uri, userinput, xref.

See Also

constant, envar, filename, lineannotation, literal, literallayout, markup, option, optional, parameter, programlisting, prompt, replaceable, screen, screenshot, synopsis, systemitem, tag, userinput, varname

Examples

<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example computeroutput</title>

<para>The output from the date command,
<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.

ChangeLog

This alpha reference page is $Revision: 1.4 $ published $Date: 2005/10/30 21:59:13 $.