term — The word or phrase being defined or described in a variable list
abbrev
acronym
coref
date
emphasis
(db.emphasis)firstterm
footnote
footnoteref
foreignphrase
glossterm
phrase
(db.phrase)quote
subscript
superscript
wordasword
alt
anchor
annotation
biblioref
indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular)indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobject
link
olink
remark
subscript
superscript
xref
The term
in a varlistentry
identifies the thing that is described or defined by that entry.
Formatted as a displayed block. A term
is usually formatted to make it stand out with respect to the text that follows. The best presentation depends on several factors, including the number and length of the terms. The termlength
attribute on the containing variablelist
may influence the presentation of term
s. See variablelist
.
The following elements occur in term: text, abbrev
, accel
, acronym
, alt
, anchor
, annotation
, application
, author
, biblioref
, citation
, citebiblioid
, citerefentry
,
citetitle
, classname
, code
, command
, computeroutput
, constant
, coref
, database
, date
, editor
, email
, emphasis
(db.emphasis), envar
,
errorcode
, errorname
, errortext
, errortype
, exceptionname
, filename
, firstterm
, footnote
, footnoteref
, foreignphrase
, function
, glossterm
, guibutton
,
guiicon
, guilabel
, guimenu
, guimenuitem
, guisubmenu
, hardware
, html:button
, html:fieldset
, html:input
, html:label
, html:select
, html:textarea
, indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular), indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange), initializer
, inlineequation
, inlinemediaobject
, interfacename
, jobtitle
, keycap
, keycode
, keycombo
, keysym
, link
, literal
, markup
, menuchoice
, methodname
,
modifier
, mousebutton
, nonterminal
, olink
, ooclass
, ooexception
, oointerface
, option
, optional
, org
, orgname
, package
, parameter
, person
, personname
, phrase
(db.phrase), productname
, productnumber
, prompt
, property
, quote
, remark
, replaceable
, returnvalue
, shortcut
, subscript
, superscript
, symbol
, systemitem
, tag
, termdef
, token
, trademark
,
type
, uri
, userinput
, varname
, wordasword
, xref
.