mathphrase

mathphrase — A mathematical phrase, an expression that can be represented with ordinary text and a small amount of markup

Synopsis

Content Model

mathphrase ::=

Zero or more of:
- text
- alt
- alt
- anchor
- anchor
- annotation
- annotation
- biblioref
- biblioref
- emphasis (db._emphasis)
- indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
- indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
- indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
- indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
- indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
- indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
- inlinemediaobject
- inlinemediaobject
- link
- link
- olink
- olink
- phrase (db._phrase)
- remark
- remark
- replaceable
- subscript
- subscript
- superscript
- superscript
- xref
- xref

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

A mathphrase is a simple, inline equation, one that can be represented using ordinary text, symbols, subscripts, and superscripts. E=mc², for example.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Parents

These elements contain mathphrase: equation, informalequation, inlineequation.

Children

The following elements occur in mathphrase: text, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, emphasis (db._emphasis), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, xref.

Examples

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

<equation xml:id="eq.fermatphrase"><title>Fermat's Last Theorem</title>
  <mathphrase>x<superscript>n</superscript>
+ y<superscript>n</superscript>
≠ z<superscript>n</superscript>
∀ n ≠ 2</mathphrase>
</equation>

</article>

Equation 2. Fermat's Last Theorem

xⁿ + yⁿ ≠ zⁿ ∀ n ≠ 2

ChangeLog

This alpha reference page is $Revision: 1.3 $ published $Date: 2005/07/07 16:41:05 $.


markup		mediaobject