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3 | 3 | <sect1 id="notation"> |
4 | 4 | <title>Conventions</title> |
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6 | | - <para> |
7 | | - This book uses the following typographical conventions to mark |
8 | | - certain portions of text: new terms, foreign phrases, and other |
9 | | - important passages are emphasized in <emphasis>italics</>. |
10 | | - Everything that represents input or output of the computer, in |
11 | | - particular commands, program code, and screen output, is shown in a |
12 | | - monospaced font (<literal>example</literal>). Within such |
13 | | - passages, italics (<replaceable>example</replaceable>) indicate |
14 | | - placeholders; you must insert an actual value instead of the placeholder. |
15 | | - On occasion, parts of program code are emphasized in bold face |
16 | | - (<emphasis role="bold"><literal>example</></>), if they have been |
17 | | - added or changed since the preceding example. |
18 | | - </para> |
19 | | - |
20 | 6 | <para> |
21 | 7 | The following conventions are used in the synopsis of a command: |
22 | 8 | brackets (<literal>[</literal> and <literal>]</literal>) indicate |
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