refsynopsisdiv — A syntactic synopsis of the subject of the reference page
annotation
bridgehead
remark
revhistory
informalequation
informalexample
informalfigure
informaltable
(db.cals.informaltable)informaltable
(db.html.informaltable)A refsynopsisdiv
contains a syntactic synopsis of the function or command described by the refentry
. When refentry
s are used to describe other sorts of things, refsynopsisdiv
should be used for whatever succinct, synopsis information
seems appropriate.[6]
Formatted as a displayed block. A refsynopsisdiv
usually generates a section heading, in the same typographic style as a refsect1
title
, called “Synopsis.”
Formatting reference pages may require a fairly sophisticated processing system. Much of the meta-information about a reference page (its name, type, purpose, title, and classification) is stored in wrappers near the beginning of the refentry
.
Common presentational features, such as titles and running headers, may require data from several of these wrappers plus some generated text. Other formatting often requires that these elements be reordered.
The following elements occur in refsynopsisdiv: address
, anchor
, annotation
, bibliolist
, blockquote
, bridgehead
, calloutlist
, caution
, classsynopsis
, cmdsynopsis
, constraintdef
, constructorsynopsis
, destructorsynopsis
, epigraph
, equation
, example
, fieldsynopsis
, figure
, formalpara
, funcsynopsis
, glosslist
, html:form
, important
, indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular), indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange), info
(db.info),
info
(db.titleforbidden.info), informalequation
, informalexample
, informalfigure
, informaltable
(db.cals.informaltable), informaltable
(db.html.informaltable), itemizedlist
, literallayout
, mediaobject
, methodsynopsis
, msgset
, note
, orderedlist
, para
, procedure
, productionset
, programlisting
, programlistingco
, qandaset
, refsect2
, refsection
, remark
, revhistory
, screen
, screenco
, screenshot
, segmentedlist
, sidebar
, simpara
, simplelist
, subtitle
, synopsis
, table
(db.cals.table), table
(db.html.table), task
, tip
, title
, titleabbrev
, variablelist
, warning
.
arg
, cmdsynopsis
, group
, refnamediv
, refsect1
, refsect2
, refsect3
, refsection
, sbr
, synopfragment
, synopfragmentref
[6] In this book, each element of the DTD is described on a reference page, and the refsynopsisdiv
is used for the synopsis at the beginning of each entry.