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abbrev

Name

abbrev — An abbreviation, especially one followed by a period

Synopsis

Mixed Content Model

abbrev ::=
(#PCDATA|acronym|emphasis|trademark|link|olink|ulink|anchor|
 remark|subscript|superscript|inlinegraphic|inlinemediaobject|
 indexterm|beginpage)*

Attributes

Common attributes

Parameter Entities

The following parameter entities contain abbrev:

Parameter Entities
`%bibliocomponent.mix;`	`%gen.char.class;`	`%ndxterm.char.mix;`
`%para.char.mix;`	`%refinline.char.mix;`	`%tbl.entry.mdl;`
`%title.char.mix;`

Description

An abbreviation, especially one followed by a period.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Parents

These elements contain abbrev: appendixinfo, application, articleinfo, attribution, biblioentry, bibliographyinfo, bibliomisc, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, bookinfo, bridgehead, chapterinfo, citation, citetitle, emphasis, entry, foreignphrase, glossaryinfo, glossentry, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, indexinfo, lineannotation, link, literallayout, lotentry, member, msgaud, objectinfo, olink, para, partinfo, phrase, prefaceinfo, primary, primaryie, productname, programlisting, quote, refentryinfo, refentrytitle, referenceinfo, refpurpose, refsect1info, refsect2info, refsect3info, refsynopsisdivinfo, remark, screen, screeninfo, secondary, secondaryie, sect1info, sect2info, sect3info, sect4info, sect5info, sectioninfo, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, setindexinfo, setinfo, sidebarinfo, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, term, tertiary, tertiaryie, title, titleabbrev, tocback, tocentry, tocfront, ulink.

Children

The following elements occur in abbrev: acronym, anchor, beginpage, emphasis, indexterm, inlinegraphic, inlinemediaobject, link, olink, remark, subscript, superscript, trademark, ulink.

Examples

<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>
The <abbrev>Assn.</abbrev> of Computing Machinery would probably never
abbreviate &ldquo;Association&rdquo; like this.
</para>

The Assn. of Computing Machinery would probably never abbreviate “Association” like this.

For additional examples, see also bibliography, biblioset, footnote, glossary .