<para>

Description

A paragraph of text.

Paragraphs mainly contain text, but can also contain inline graphic elements. See <graphic> for more information on inline graphic elements.

In addition, parts of the paragraph's text can be marked as emphasized, strong, superscript, or subscript. See <emph>, <strong>, <sup>, and <sub> for more information.

Attributes

No attributes other than standard attributes are defined for <para> elements.

Immediate descendants

<para> elements may contain text, interleaved with the following immediate descendants.

Element name Description
<emph> A emphasized span of text within a paragraph.
<graphic> An inline graphic within the paragraph text.
<span> A span of text within a paragraph.
<strong> A strongly highlighted span of text within a paragraph.
<sub> A subscript span of text within a paragraph.
<sup> A superscript span of text within a paragraph.

Immediate ancestors

Element name Relation
<cell> An enclosing cell in a table header or body.
<chapter> An enclosing chapter.
<entry> An enclosing entry in a list.
<section> An enclosing section.

Examples

<document xmlns="http://boradoc.org/1.0">
  <chapter>
    <para>Hello World!</para>
    <para>
      The 
      <emph>second</emph>
       word in this sentence is emphasized.
    </para>
    <para>
      The third 
      <strong>word</strong>
       in this sentence is rendered more heavily.
    </para>
    <para>
      This paragraph contains a graphical 
      <graphic url="images/open-book.jpg" width="7%" />
       image.
    </para>
    <para>
      This 
      <ref url="reference/para">link</ref>
       links to the paragraph documentation.
    </para>
    <para>
      E = mc
      <sup>2</sup>
      .
    </para>
    <para>
      A
      <sub>1</sub>
      , A
      <sub>2</sub>
      , A
      <sub>3</sub>
      , A
      <sub>4</sub>
      .
    </para>
  </chapter>
</document>

The above BDML renders to the following:

Hello World!

The second word in this sentence is emphasized.

The third word in this sentence is rendered more heavily.

This paragraph contains a graphical image.

This link links to the paragraph documentation.

E = mc2.

A1, A2, A3, A4.