Typographical Conventions - Dell PP01S User Manual

Preface: Dell Latitude LS Portable Computers User's Guide
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Typographical Conventions

The following list defines (where appropriate) and illustrates typographical conventions used as
visual cues for specific elements of text throughout this document:
Interface components are window titles, button and icon names, menu names and
selections, and other options that appear on the monitor screen or display. They are
presented in bold.
Example: Click OK.
Keycaps, the labeling that appears on the keys on a keyboard, are enclosed in angle
brackets.
Example: <Enter>
Key combinations are series of keys to be pressed simultaneously (unless otherwise
indicated) to perform a single function.
Example: <Ctrl><Alt><Enter>
Commands presented in lowercase bold are for reference purposes only and are not
intended to be typed at that particular point in the discussion.
Example: "Use the setup command to . . . ."
In contrast, commands presented in the Courier New font are intended to be typed as
part of an instruction.
Example: "Type format a: to format the diskette in drive A."
Filenames and directory names are presented in lowercase bold.
Examples: autoexec.bat and c:\windows
Syntax lines consist of a command and all its possible parameters. Commands are
displayed in lowercase bold; variable parameters (those for which you substitute a value)
are displayed in lowercase italics; constant parameters are displayed in lowercase bold.
The brackets indicate items that are optional.
Example: del [drive:] [[path]filename] [/p]
Command lines consist of a command and may include one or more of the command's
possible parameters. Command lines are presented in the Courier New font.
Example: del c:\myfile.doc
Screen text is text that appears on the screen of your display or external monitor. It can
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