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Synopsis

  (CalloutList | GlossList | ItemizedList | OrderedList
  | SegmentedList | SimpleList | VariableList
  | LiteralLayout | ProgramListing | ProgramListingCO
  | Screen | ScreenCO | ScreenShot | Synopsis | CmdSynopsis
  | FuncSynopsis | FormalPara | Para | SimPara | Address
  | BlockQuote | Graphic | GraphicCO | InformalEquation
  | InformalExample
  | InformalTable)+

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Name	Value(s)	Type	Default Value
Width	NUMBER	#IMPLIED

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Description

Untitled example. See Example. It has Width and common attributes.

Parents

These elements contain InformalExample: Appendix, Article, BiblioDiv, Bibliography, BlockQuote, Callout, Caution, Chapter, Example, Figure, Footnote, GlossDef, GlossDiv, Glossary, Important, Index, IndexDiv, InformalExample, ListItem, MsgExplan, MsgText, Note, Para, PartIntro, Preface, Procedure, RefSect1, RefSect2, RefSect3, RefSynopsisDiv, Sect1, Sect2, Sect3, Sect4, Sect5, SetIndex, Sidebar, SimpleSect, Step, Tip, and Warning.

Children

InformalExample contains these elements: Address, BlockQuote, CalloutList, CmdSynopsis, FormalPara, FuncSynopsis, GlossList, Graphic, GraphicCO, InformalEquation, InformalExample, InformalTable, ItemizedList, LiteralLayout, OrderedList, Para, ProgramListing, ProgramListingCO, Screen, ScreenCO, ScreenShot, SegmentedList, SimPara, SimpleList, Synopsis, and VariableList.

In some contexts, additional elements may be allowed by inclusions in parent elements. Similarly, in some contexts, some of these elements may be invalid due to exclusions in parent elements.

Attributes

Width

Width indicates the width of the longest line in the element to which it pertains, in number of characters.

Examples

<INFORMALEXAMPLE ID="EX-1002-5-5">
<PROGRAMLISTING>GC gc1, gc2;
XGCValues values;<LINEANNOTATION>Note capitalization</LINEANNOTATION>
unsigned long valuemask;
        .
        .
        .
/* Open display, create window, etc. */
values.foreground = BlackPixel(display,screen_num);
values.background = WhitePixel(display,screen_num);
gc1 = XCreateGC(display, RootWindow(display, screen_num),
        (GCForeground | GCBackground), &amp;values);
values.foreground = WhitePixel(display,screen_num);
values.background = BlackPixel(display,screen_num);
gc2 = XCreateGC(display, RootWindow(display, screen_num),
        (GCForeground | GCBackground), &amp;values);
/* Now you can use either gc in drawing routines, thereby
 * quickly swapping the foreground and background colors */
</PROGRAMLISTING>
</INFORMALEXAMPLE>

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