mathphrase

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

Synopsis

Description

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

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Parents

These elements contain mathphrase: equation, informalequation, inlineequation.

Children

The following elements occur in mathphrase: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, 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.

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <title>Example equation</title>
    
  4 <equation xml:id="eq.fermatphrase">
      <title>Fermat's Last Theorem</title>
  6   <mathphrase>x<superscript>n</superscript>
    + y<superscript>n</superscript>
  8 ≠ z<superscript>n</superscript>
    ∀ n ≠ 2</mathphrase>
 10 </equation>
    
 12 </article>
xn + yn ≠ zn ∀ n ≠ 2
Equation 3. Fermat's Last Theorem
Last revised by Norman Walsh on 6 Jun 2011 (git hash: 6ffcc7640bbc5f852a318e452c9f210f03292cb9)