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Formatting convention

Type of Information

Example

Special Bold

Names of operators and operations.

Go to the QoS tab.

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.

Monospace

The names of commands, files, and directories.

The license file is located in the httpdocs/common/licenses directory.

Preformatted

On-screen computer output in your command-line sessions; source code in XML, C++, or other programming languages.

# ls –al /files

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