screen

screen — Text that a user sees or might see on a computer screen

Synopsis

Mixed Content Model

screen ::=
(#PCDATA|footnoteref|xref|biblioref|abbrev|acronym|citation|
 citerefentry|citetitle|citebiblioid|emphasis|firstterm|
 foreignphrase|glossterm|termdef|footnote|phrase|orgname|quote|
 trademark|wordasword|personname|link|olink|ulink|action|
 application|classname|methodname|interfacename|exceptionname|
 ooclass|oointerface|ooexception|package|command|computeroutput|
 database|email|envar|errorcode|errorname|errortype|errortext|
 filename|function|guibutton|guiicon|guilabel|guimenu|guimenuitem|
 guisubmenu|hardware|interface|keycap|keycode|keycombo|keysym|
 literal|code|constant|markup|medialabel|menuchoice|mousebutton|
 option|optional|parameter|prompt|property|replaceable|
 returnvalue|sgmltag|structfield|structname|symbol|systemitem|uri|
 token|type|userinput|varname|nonterminal|anchor|author|
 authorinitials|corpauthor|corpcredit|modespec|othercredit|
 productname|productnumber|revhistory|remark|subscript|
 superscript|inlinegraphic|inlinemediaobject|inlineequation|
 synopsis|cmdsynopsis|funcsynopsis|classsynopsis|fieldsynopsis|
 constructorsynopsis|destructorsynopsis|methodsynopsis|indexterm|
 beginpage|co|coref|textobject|lineannotation)*

Attributes

Common attributes

Name	Type	Default
width	CDATA	None
linenumbering	Enumeration: numbered unnumbered	None
language	CDATA	None
xml:space	Enumeration: preserve	None
continuation	Enumeration: continues restarts	None
format	Enumerated notation: linespecific	"linespecific"
startinglinenumber	CDATA	None

Description

A Screen is a verbatim environment for displaying text that the user might see on a computer terminal. It is often used to display the results of a command.

Having less specific semantic overtones, Screen is often used wherever a verbatim presentation is desired, but the semantic of ProgramListing is inappropriate.

Processing expectations

This element is displayed “verbatim”; whitespace and linebreaks within this element are significant. Screens are usually displayed in a fixed width font.

Future Changes

The InterfaceDefinition element will be discarded in DocBook V4.0. It will no longer be available in the content model of this element.

Future Changes

The xml:space attribute is automatically provided in the XML DTD.

Parents

These elements contain screen: answer, appendix, article, bibliodiv, bibliography, blockquote, callout, caption, caution, chapter, colophon, constraintdef, dedication, entry, example, figure, footnote, glossary, glossdef, glossdiv, important, index, indexdiv, informalexample, informalfigure, itemizedlist, legalnotice, listitem, msgexplan, msgtext, note, orderedlist, para, partintro, preface, procedure, qandadiv, qandaset, question, refsect1, refsect2, refsect3, refsection, refsynopsisdiv, revdescription, screenco, sect1, sect2, sect3, sect4, sect5, section, setindex, sidebar, simplesect, step, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, td, textobject, th, tip, variablelist, warning.

Children

The following elements occur in screen: abbrev, acronym, action, anchor, application, author, authorinitials, beginpage, biblioref, citation, citebiblioid, citerefentry, citetitle, classname, classsynopsis, cmdsynopsis, co, code, command, computeroutput, constant, constructorsynopsis, coref, corpauthor, corpcredit, database, destructorsynopsis, email, emphasis, envar, errorcode, errorname, errortext, errortype, exceptionname, fieldsynopsis, filename, firstterm, footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase, funcsynopsis, function, glossterm, guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, hardware, indexterm, inlineequation, inlinegraphic, inlinemediaobject, interface, interfacename, keycap, keycode, keycombo, keysym, lineannotation, link, literal, markup, medialabel, menuchoice, methodname, methodsynopsis, modespec, mousebutton, nonterminal, olink, ooclass, ooexception, oointerface, option, optional, orgname, othercredit, package, parameter, personname, phrase, productname, productnumber, prompt, property, quote, remark, replaceable, returnvalue, revhistory, sgmltag, structfield, structname, subscript, superscript, symbol, synopsis, systemitem, termdef, textobject, token, trademark, type, ulink, uri, userinput, varname, wordasword, xref.

Attributes

format

The Format attribute applies the linespecific notation to all Screens. All white space and line breaks must be preserved.

linenumbering

Line numbering indicates whether or not the lines of a Screen are to be automatically numbered. The details of numbering (every line or only selected lines, on the left or right, etc.) are left up to the processing application. Be aware that not all processors are capable of numbering lines.

width

Width specifies the width (in characters) of the longest line in this Screen (formatters may use this value to determine scaling or rotation).

See Also

computeroutput, lineannotation, literallayout, programlisting, screenshot, synopsis, userinput.

Examples

<!DOCTYPE screen PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<screen>
 Volume in drive C is SYSTEM         Serial number is 2350:717C
 Directory of  C:\

10/17/97   9:04         &lt;DIR&gt;    bin
10/16/97  14:11         &lt;DIR&gt;    DOS
10/16/97  14:40         &lt;DIR&gt;    Program Files
10/16/97  14:46         &lt;DIR&gt;    TEMP
10/17/97   9:04         &lt;DIR&gt;    tmp
10/16/97  14:37         &lt;DIR&gt;    WINNT
10/16/97  14:25             119  AUTOEXEC.BAT
 2/13/94   6:21          54,619  COMMAND.COM
10/16/97  14:25             115  CONFIG.SYS
11/16/97  17:17      61,865,984  pagefile.sys
 2/13/94   6:21           9,349  WINA20.386
</screen>

 Volume in drive C is SYSTEM         Serial number is 2350:717C
 Directory of  C:\

10/17/97   9:04         <DIR>    bin
10/16/97  14:11         <DIR>    DOS
10/16/97  14:40         <DIR>    Program Files
10/16/97  14:46         <DIR>    TEMP
10/17/97   9:04         <DIR>    tmp
10/16/97  14:37         <DIR>    WINNT
10/16/97  14:25             119  AUTOEXEC.BAT
 2/13/94   6:21          54,619  COMMAND.COM
10/16/97  14:25             115  CONFIG.SYS
11/16/97  17:17      61,865,984  pagefile.sys
 2/13/94   6:21           9,349  WINA20.386

For additional examples, see also lineannotation, screenco.