Name
computeroutput — Data, generally text, displayed or presented by a computer
Synopsis
computeroutput ::= (text | Computer-output inlines | Graphic inlines | Indexing inlines | Linking inlines | Markup inlines | Operating system inlines | Technical inlines | Ubiquitous inlines)*
Attribute synopsis
Description
A 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.
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>
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