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Documentation Notations and Conventions


This section describes the conventions used throughout the text and graphics of the DIGITAL documentation. Information worthy of special attention is formatted in the following note style:


[Note] This area contains a point of interest or supplementary information that, if ignored, may result in loss of data, or injuries to you and/or other people, and damage to equipment.


[Doodad] Special Typefaces

Text in DIGITAL documentation uses the following typeface and syntax conventions:

italic text

Introduces a word or phrase, highlights an important term or phrase, indicates a field name, system message, or document title.

typewriter text

Indicates a command, program, filename, or pathname.

<bracketed>

Indicates an argument that you or the software replaces with an appropriate value. For example, the command rm <filename> indicates that you should type rm followed by the filename of the file to be removed.

bold text

Indicates text that you type in examples. Also emphasizes steps that you perform to complete a task.

Small Caps

Represents the name of a key on the keyboard, of a button displayed on your screen, or of a button or switch on the hardware. For example, press the Return key or click the Apply button.

LinkText

Highlighted text used as a hypertext link when the material is online.


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