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2 <reference xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><info><title>Common Processing Instruction Reference</title>
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6 <partintro xml:id="partintro">
7 <title>Introduction</title>
9 <para>This is generated reference documentation for all
10 user-specifiable processing instructions (PIs) in the
11 “common” part of the DocBook XSL stylesheets.
14 <para>You add these PIs at particular points in a document to
15 cause specific “exceptions” to formatting/output behavior. To
16 make global changes in formatting/output behavior across an
17 entire document, it’s better to do it by setting an
18 appropriate stylesheet parameter (if there is one).</para>
25 <refentry xml:id="dbchoice_choice">
27 <refname>dbchoice_choice</refname>
28 <refpurpose>Generates a localized choice separator</refpurpose>
32 <synopsis><tag class="xmlpi">dbchoice choice="and"|"or"|<replaceable>string</replaceable>"</tag></synopsis>
35 <refsect1><title>Description</title>
37 <para>Use the <tag class="xmlpi">dbchoice choice</tag> PI to
38 generate an appropriate localized “choice” separator (for
39 example, <literal>and</literal> or <literal>or</literal>)
40 before the final item in an inline <tag>simplelist</tag></para>
44 <para>This PI is a less-than-ideal hack; support for it may
45 disappear in the future (particularly if and when a more
46 appropriate means for marking up "choice" lists becomes
47 available in DocBook).</para>
50 </refsect1><refsect1><title>Parameters</title>
53 <varlistentry><term>choice="and"</term>
56 <para>generates a localized <literal>and</literal> separator</para>
60 <varlistentry><term>choice="or"</term>
63 <para>generates a localized <literal>or</literal> separator</para>
67 <varlistentry><term>choice="<replaceable>string</replaceable>"</term>
70 <para>generates a literal <replaceable>string</replaceable> separator</para>
76 </refsect1></refentry>
78 <refentry xml:id="dbtimestamp">
80 <refname>dbtimestamp</refname>
81 <refpurpose>Inserts a date timestamp</refpurpose>
85 <synopsis><tag class="xmlpi">dbtimestamp format="<replaceable>formatstring</replaceable>" [padding="0"|"1"]</tag></synopsis>
88 <refsect1><title>Description</title>
90 <para>Use the <tag class="xmlpi">dbtimestamp</tag> PI at any point in a
91 source document to cause a date timestamp (a formatted
92 string representing the current date and time) to be
93 inserted in output of the document.</para>
95 </refsect1><refsect1><title>Parameters</title>
98 <varlistentry><term>format="<replaceable>formatstring</replaceable>"</term>
101 <para>Specifies format in which the date and time are
106 <para>For details of the content of the format string,
107 see <link role="tcg" xlink:href="Datetime.html">Date and time</link>.</para>
112 <varlistentry><term>padding="0"|"1"</term>
115 <para>Specifies padding behavior; if non-zero, padding is is added</para>
121 </refsect1></refentry>
123 <refentry xml:id="dbtex_delims">
125 <refname>dbtex_delims</refname>
126 <refpurpose>Generates delimiters around embedded TeX equations
127 in output</refpurpose>
131 <synopsis><tag class="xmlpi">dbtex delims="no"|"yes"</tag></synopsis>
134 <refsect1><title>Description</title>
136 <para>Use the <tag class="xmlpi">dbtex delims</tag> PI as a
137 child of a <tag>textobject</tag> containing embedded TeX
138 markup, to cause that markup to be surrounded by
139 <literal>$</literal> delimiter characters in output.</para>
143 <para>This feature is useful for print/PDF output only if you
144 use the obsolete and now unsupported PassiveTeX XSL-FO
148 </refsect1><refsect1><title>Parameters</title>
151 <varlistentry><term>dbtex delims="no"|"yes"</term>
154 <para>Specifies whether delimiters are output</para>
160 </refsect1><refsect1 role="params"><title>Related Global Parameters</title>
162 <para><parameter>tex.math.delims</parameter></para>
164 </refsect1></refentry>