foreignphrase

foreignphrase — A word or phrase in a language other than the primary language of the document

Synopsis

foreignphrase ::=

Zero or more of:
- text
- Bibliography inlines
  author
  
  citation
  
  citebiblioid
  
  citerefentry
  
  citetitle
  
  editor
  
  jobtitle
  
  org
  
  orgname
  
  person
  
  personname
- Graphic inlines
  inlinemediaobject
- Indexing inlines
  indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
  
  indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
  
  indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
- Linking inlines
  anchor
  
  biblioref
  
  link
  
  olink
  
  xref
- Product inlines
  application
  
  database
  
  hardware
  
  productname
  
  productnumber
  
  trademark
- Publishing inlines
  abbrev
  
  acronym
  
  coref
  
  date
  
  emphasis (db.emphasis)
  
  firstterm
  
  footnote
  
  footnoteref
  
  foreignphrase
  
  glossterm
  
  phrase (db.phrase)
  
  quote
  
  subscript
  
  superscript
  
  wordasword

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

The foreignphrase element can be used to markup the text of a foreign word or phrase. “Foreign” in this context means that it is a language other than the primary language of the document and is not intended to be pejorative in any way.

Processing expectations

A foreignphrase is often given special typographic treatment, such as italics.

Parents

These elements contain foreignphrase: biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, html:button, html:label, html:legend, link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry.

Children

The following elements occur in foreignphrase: text, abbrev, acronym, anchor, application, author, biblioref, citation, citebiblioid, citerefentry, citetitle, coref, database, date, editor, emphasis (db.emphasis), firstterm, footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase, glossterm, hardware, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, jobtitle, link, olink, org, orgname, person, personname, phrase (db.phrase), productname, productnumber, quote, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.

Examples

<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example foreignphrase</title>

<para>Like so many others, it became a <foreignphrase>de facto</foreignphrase>
standard.
</para>

</article>

Like so many others, it became a de facto standard.

ChangeLog

This alpha reference page is $Revision: 7120 $ published Sun, 22 Jul 2007.


footnoteref		formalpara