![[Graphic: Figure from the text]](./figs/paras.gif) 
DocBook has three kinds of paragraph, regular, simple, and formal:
An Abstract briefly describes the purpose of a document. A Highlights element provides highlights to help a reader navigate the material within a Book component.
![[Graphic: Figure from the text]](./figs/abstract.gif) 
An Abstract contains an optional Title, followed by one or more of the paragraph elements in %para.class;.
![[Graphic: Figure from the text]](./figs/hilights.gif) 
A Highlights element contains one or more object-level elements from the %highlights.mix; mixture.
![[Graphic: Figure from the text]](./figs/aublurb.gif) 
An AuthorBlurb briefly describes the author of a document. It contains an optional Title, followed by one or more paragraph elements from %para.class;.
A BlockQuote is an extended, set-off excerpt from another document. An Epigraph is a brief text, typically a quotation, that is somehow relevant to a document's content and is set at the beginning of the document. Both may contain an Attribution element for attribution of the source of their content.
![[Graphic: Figure from the text]](./figs/blquote.gif) 
BlockQuote contains an optional Title, an optional Attribution, and one or more object-level elements from the %component.mix; mixture.
![[Graphic: Figure from the text]](./figs/epigraph.gif) 
Epigraph contains an optional Attribution and one or more paragraph elements from %para.class;.
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