DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide

Name

LoT -- A list of the titles of formal objects (as tables or figures) in a document

Synopsis

Content Model

LoT ::= ((DocInfo?,Title,Subtitle?,TitleAbbrev?)?, LoTentry*)

Attributes

Common attributes

Tag Minimization

The start-tag is required for this element. The end-tag is optional, if your SGML declaration allows minimization.

Parameter Entities

Description

A LoT is a list of titles. It can be used to generate lists of Figures, Tables, Examples, or Equations.

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block. A list of titles in a Book usually introduces a forced page break.

Most often, lists of titles are generated automatically by the presentation system and never have to be represented explicitly in the document source.

Parents

These elements contain LoT: Article, Book, Part, Sect1, Sect2, Sect3, Sect4, Sect5, Section.

Children

The following elements occur in LoT: DocInfo, LoTentry, Subtitle, Title, TitleAbbrev.

In some contexts, the following elements are allowed anywhere: BeginPage, IndexTerm.

Attributes

Label

Label specifies an identifying number or string that may be used in presentation.

Examples

<!DOCTYPE lot PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN"> <lot><title>List of Figures</title> <lotentry pagenum=5>The Letters &ldquo;g&rdquo; and &ldquo;h&rdquo; inside their boxes</lotentry> <lotentry pagenum=15>Example figure produced by both TeX and troff</lotentry> <!-- ... --> </lot>

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