Screen

Name

Screen -- Text that a user sees or might see on a computer screen

Content Model

  (CO | LineAnnotation | #PCDATA | FootnoteRef | XRef | Abbrev
  | Acronym | Citation | CiteRefEntry | CiteTitle | Emphasis
  | FirstTerm | ForeignPhrase | GlossTerm | Footnote | Phrase
  | Quote | Trademark | WordAsWord | Link | OLink | ULink
  | Action | Application | ClassName | Command
  | ComputerOutput | Database | Email | EnVar | ErrorCode
  | ErrorName | ErrorType | Filename | Function | GUIButton
  | GUIIcon | GUILabel | GUIMenu | GUIMenuItem | GUISubmenu
  | Hardware | Interface | InterfaceDefinition | KeyCap
  | KeyCode | KeyCombo | KeySym | Literal | Markup | MediaLabel
  | MenuChoice | MouseButton | MsgText | Option | Optional
  | Parameter | Prompt | Property | Replaceable | ReturnValue
  | SGMLTag | StructField | StructName | Symbol | SystemItem
  | Token | Type | UserInput | Anchor | Author | AuthorInitials
  | CorpAuthor | ModeSpec | OtherCredit | ProductName
  | ProductNumber | RevHistory | Comment | Subscript
  | Superscript | InlineGraphic | InlineEquation | Synopsis
  | CmdSynopsis
  | FuncSynopsis)+

Attributes

This element has common and Role attributes.

NameValue(s)TypeDefault Value
Format(linespecific)NOTATIONlinespecific
WidthNUMBER#IMPLIED 

Tag Minimization

Both the start- and end-tags are required for this element.

Description

Text that a user sees or might see on a computer screen. It consists of in-line elements, in which line breaks and leading white space are considered significant. It has common and Width attributes.

Parents

These elements contain Screen: Appendix, Article, BiblioDiv, Bibliography, BlockQuote, Callout, Caution, Chapter, Dedication, Example, Figure, Footnote, GlossDef, GlossDiv, Glossary, Important, Index, IndexDiv, InformalExample, LegalNotice, ListItem, MsgExplan, MsgText, Note, Para, PartIntro, Preface, Procedure, RefSect1, RefSect2, RefSect3, RefSynopsisDiv, ScreenCO, Sect1, Sect2, Sect3, Sect4, Sect5, SetIndex, Sidebar, SimpleSect, Step, Tip, Warning, entry.

Children

Screen contains these elements: Abbrev, Acronym, Action, Anchor, Application, Author, AuthorInitials, CO, Citation, CiteRefEntry, CiteTitle, ClassName, CmdSynopsis, Command, Comment, ComputerOutput, CorpAuthor, Database, Email, Emphasis, EnVar, ErrorCode, ErrorName, ErrorType, Filename, FirstTerm, Footnote, FootnoteRef, ForeignPhrase, FuncSynopsis, Function, GUIButton, GUIIcon, GUILabel, GUIMenu, GUIMenuItem, GUISubmenu, GlossTerm, Hardware, InlineEquation, InlineGraphic, Interface, InterfaceDefinition, KeyCap, KeyCode, KeyCombo, KeySym, LineAnnotation, Link, Literal, Markup, MediaLabel, MenuChoice, ModeSpec, MouseButton, MsgText, OLink, Option, Optional, OtherCredit, #PCDATA, Parameter, Phrase, ProductName, ProductNumber, Prompt, Property, Quote, Replaceable, ReturnValue, RevHistory, SGMLTag, StructField, StructName, Subscript, Superscript, Symbol, Synopsis, SystemItem, Token, Trademark, Type, ULink, UserInput, WordAsWord, XRef.

In some contexts, additional elements may be allowed by inclusions in parent elements. Similarly, in some contexts, some of these elements may be invalid due to exclusions in parent elements.

Attributes

Width

Width indicates the width of the longest line in the element to which it pertains, in number of characters.

Format

Line ends and leading white space must be preserved in output.

Examples

<SCREEN ID="SC-1015-12-24" WIDTH="44">
<PROMPT>%</PROMPT> <USERINPUT>make install</USERINPUT>
install -c -m 0644 rgb.txt /usr/lib/X11
install -c -m 0644 rgb.dir /usr/lib/X11
install -c -m 0644 rgb.pag /usr/lib/X11
install -c -s showrgb /usr/lib/X11
install in ./rgb done

</SCREEN>