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para
para — A paragraph.
Synopsis
- Sequence of:
info
? (db.titleforbidden.info)- Zero or more of:
- text
- Sequence of:
- Sequence of:
- Sequence of:
- empty
- empty
- Sequence of:
revhistory
- Bibliography inlines
- Graphic inlines
- Linking inlines
- Product inlines
- Publishing inlines
- Technical inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
informaltable
(db.cals.informaltable)informaltable
(db.html.informaltable)
- List elements
- Publishing elements
- Verbatim elements
Description
A para
is a paragraph. Paragraphs in DocBook may
contain almost all inlines and most block elements. Sectioning and
higher-level structural elements are excluded.
Some processing systems may find the presence of block elements in a paragraph difficult to handle. On the other hand, it is frequently most logical, from a structural point of view, to include block elements, especially informal block elements, in the paragraphs that describe their content. There is no easy answer to this problem.
Parents
These elements contain para
: abstract
, bibliodiv
, bibliography
, blockquote
, caption
(db.caption), entry
, epigraph
, example
, figure
, foil
, foilgroup
, footnote
, itemizedlist
, legalnotice
, listitem
, note
, orderedlist
, personblurb
, revdescription
, section
, sidebar
, slides
, speakernotes
, td
, textobject
, th
, variablelist
.
Children
The following elements occur in para: text, abbrev
, acronym
, author
, blockquote
, citetitle
, command
, computeroutput
, editor
, email
, emphasis
, epigraph
, example
, figure
, filename
, footnote
, footnoteref
, info
(db.titleforbidden.info), informaltable
(db.cals.informaltable), informaltable
(db.html.informaltable), inlinemediaobject
, itemizedlist
, link
, literal
, literallayout
, mediaobject
, note
, option
, orderedlist
, orgname
, personname
, phrase
(db.phrase), programlisting
, quote
, replaceable
, revhistory
, sidebar
, subscript
, superscript
, systemitem
, table
(db.cals.table), table
(db.html.table), trademark
, userinput
, variablelist
, xref
.
Examples
An ordinary paragraph.
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example para</title>
<para>The component suffered from three failings:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>It was slow</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>It ran hot</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>It didn't actually work</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
Of these three, the last was probably the most important.
</para>
</article>
The component suffered from three failings:
It was slow
It ran hot
It didn't actually work
A formal paragraph.
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example para</title>
<formalpara><title>A Test</title>
<para>This is a test. This is only a test. Had this been a real
example, it would have made more sense.
</para>
</formalpara>
</article>
This is a test. This is only a test. Had this been a real example, it would have made more sense.
A simple paragraph.
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example para</title>
<simpara>
Just the text, ma'am.
</simpara>
</article>
Just the text, ma'am.