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DocBook Publishers: The Definitive Guide (Version 1.1.0 for DocBook Publishers V1.1 (based on DocBook V5.1b3)) |
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DocBook Publishers: The Definitive Guide (Version 1.1.0 for DocBook Publishers V1.1 (based on DocBook V5.1b3)) |
wordasword — A word meant specifically as a word and not representing anything else.
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A lot of technical documentation contains words that have overloaded meanings. Sometimes it is useful to be able to use a word without invoking its technical meaning. The wordasword element identifies a word or phrase that might otherwise be interpreted in some specific way, and asserts that it should be interpreted simply as a word.
It is unlikely that the presentation of this element will be able to help readers understand the variation in meaning; good writing will have to achieve that goal. The real value of wordasword lies in the fact that full-text searching and indexing tools can use it to avoid false positives.
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These elements contain wordasword: abbrev, acronym, address, artpagenums, attribution, authorinitials, bibliocoverage, biblioentry, biblioid, bibliomisc, bibliomixed, bibliomset, bibliorelation, biblioset, bibliosource, bridgehead, citation, citebiblioid, citetitle, city, confdates, confnum, confsponsor, conftitle, contractnum, contractsponsor, contrib, country, edition, email, emphasis (db._emphasis), emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, fax, firstname, firstterm (db._firstterm), firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), givenname, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db._glossterm), glossterm (db.glossterm), holder, honorific, issuenum, jobtitle, label, line, lineage, link, literal, literallayout, mathphrase, member, olink, optional, orgdiv, orgname, otheraddr, othername, pagenums, para, personname, phone, phrase (db._phrase), phrase (db.phrase), pob, postcode, primary, productname, productnumber, publishername, quote (db._quote), quote (db.quote), releaseinfo, remark, revnumber, revremark, secondary, see, seealso, seriesvolnums, shortaffil, simpara, state, street, subscript, subtitle, superscript, surname, term, termdef, tertiary, title, titleabbrev, trademark, uri, volumenum, wordasword, year.
The following elements occur in wordasword: 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.
1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> 2 <title>Example wordasword</title> 4 <para>A <wordasword>Term</wordasword> in Algebra has a very different meaning than a <tag>term</tag> in DocBook. 6 </para> 8 </article>
A Term in Algebra has a very different meaning than a term in DocBook.
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