But there must be still other countless errors of the same sort that no living man can yet detect, because of the fog within which our type of Western culture envelops us. But for a short component, you have the option of launching directly into block elements. Let us clarify what these things mean. As an example, in the above chapter, the epigraph is much like a short section. This atttibution contains a ' ', but that citation will likely be rendered inline when printed, perhaps by italics or underlining.
Sections are bigger than blocks, and are in fact just a list of blocks.
How big they are is for authorial and editorial judgement. But there are two main strategies for making sections. However, for something like a technical reference, you are more likely to consider that your material might be nested in different places and different depths appropriately. There are some other specialized block types, but the above are the most general ones. The elements and structure outlined here is enough to get started on creating your own DocBook documents.