(#PCDATA | Acronym | Emphasis | Trademark | Link | OLink | ULink | Anchor | Comment | Subscript | Superscript | InlineGraphic)+
This element has common and Role attributes.
Both the start- and end-tags are required for this element.
Word (or letter or number) used not to represent the thing or idea it usually represents, but merely as the word itself. For example, "The term <WORDASWORD>Gothic</WORDASWORD> means different things to art historians and typographers," or for a single character, "the letter <WORDASWORD>X</WORDASWORD>". It contains plain text and has common attributes.
These elements contain WordAsWord: Application, Attribution, BiblioMisc, BridgeHead, Citation, CiteTitle, Comment, Emphasis, ForeignPhrase, GlossSee, GlossSeeAlso, GlossTerm, LineAnnotation, Link, LiteralLayout, LoTentry, Member, MsgAud, OLink, Para, Phrase, Primary, PrimaryIE, ProductName, ProgramListing, Quote, RefEntryTitle, RefPurpose, Screen, ScreenInfo, Secondary, SecondaryIE, See, SeeAlso, SeeAlsoIE, SeeIE, Seg, SegTitle, SimPara, Subtitle, Synopsis, Term, Tertiary, TertiaryIE, Title, TitleAbbrev, ToCback, ToCentry, ToCfront, ULink, and entry.
WordAsWord contains these elements: Acronym, Anchor, Comment, Emphasis, InlineGraphic, Link, OLink, #PCDATA, Subscript, Superscript, Trademark, and ULink.
In some contexts, some of these elements may be invalid due to exclusions in parent elements.
<PARA> WordAsWord is a bit of a black sheep in computer documentation, but you may find that you can use it to clarify why you emphasize a term in tricky constructions: for example, why was the word <WORDASWORD>list</WORDASWORD> chosen to be a command in one system and a filename in another? </PARA>
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