DocBook: The Definitive Guide
 | By Norman Walsh & Leonard Muellner 1st Edition October 1999 1-56592-580-7, Order Number: 5807 652 pages, $36.95 , Includes CD-ROM |
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Name
ManVolNum -- A reference volume numberSynopsis
Mixed Content Model
ManVolNum ::= ((#PCDATA|Acronym|Emphasis|Trademark|Link|OLink|ULink|Anchor| Comment|Subscript|Superscript|InlineGraphic|InlineMediaObject| IndexTerm)+)
Attributes
Common attributes
Tag Minimization
The start-tag is required for this element. The end-tag is optional, if your SGML declaration allows minimization.
Description
In a DocBook reference page, the ManVolNum holds the number of the volume in which the RefEntry belongs.
The notion of a volume number is historical. UNIX manual pages ("man pages"), for which RefEntry was devised, were typically stored in three ring binders. Each bound manual was a volume in a set and contained information about a particular class of things. For example, volume 1 was for user commands, and volume 8 was for administrator commands.
Volume numbers need not be strictly numerical; volume "l" frequently held manual pages for local additions to the system, and the X Window System manual pages had an "x" in the volume number: for example, 1x.
Processing expectations
The content of ManVolNum is usually printed in parentheses after the element title or citation.
Parents
These elements contain ManVolNum: CiteRefEntry, RefMeta.
