The following kinds of formatting in the text identify special information.
Formatting convention |
Type of Information |
Example |
Special Bold |
Names of operators and operations. |
Go to the QoS tab. |
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Titles of chapters, sections, and subsections found in the other documents. |
Read the Basic Administration chapter. |
Italics |
Emphasizes the importance of a point, to introduce a term or to designate a command line placeholder, which is to be replaced with a real name or value. |
The system supports the so called wildcard character search. |
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The names of commands, files, and directories. |
The license file is located in the |
Preformatted |
On-screen computer output in your command-line sessions; source code in XML, C++, or other programming languages. |
total 14470 |
Preformatted Bold |
What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output. |
# cd /root/rpms/php |
CAPITALS |
Names of keys on the keyboard and names of operations on the title page of an operator. |
SHIFT, CTRL, ALT |
KEY+KEY |
Key combinations for which the user must press and hold down one key and then press another. |
CTRL+P, ALT+F4 |
Source code highlighting conventions are described in the following table.
Preformatted grey |
Comments in code. |
//Creates a DEB package |
Preformatted blue |
User-defined variables. |
$MyVariable |
Preformatted red |
String values. |
'Hello, world!' |
Preformatted dark-blue |
Words or word combinations reserved by a programming language. |
procedure CreateAccount() |
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