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termdef

termdef — An inline term definition

Synopsis

Mixed Content Model

termdef ::=
(#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|
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Attributes

Common attributes

Description

A termdef is an inline term definition. Some styles of documentation collect all terms together in a Glossary of some sort, but another style is to place the definitions inline.

The glossary and glosslist elements support the former style, termdef the latter.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.