Document Conventions - Amazon Product Advertising API Developer's Manual

Document Conventions

This section lists the common typographical and symbol use conventions for AWS technical publications.
Typographical Conventions
This section describes common typographical use conventions.
Convention
Call-outs
Code in text
Code blocks
Emphasis
Internal cross references
Logical values,
constants, and regular
expressions, abstracta
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Typographical Conventions
Description/Example
A call-out is a number in the body text to give you a visual reference. The
reference point is for further discussion elsewhere.
You can use this resource regularly.
Inline code samples (including XML) and commands are identified with a
special font.
You can use the command java -version .
Blocks of sample code are set apart from the body and marked accordingly.
# ls -l /var/www/html/index.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1872 Jun 21 09:33
/var/www/html/index.html
# date
Wed Jun 21 09:33:42 EDT 2006
Unusual or important words and phrases are marked with a special font.
You must sign up for an account before you can use the service.
References to a section in the same document are marked.
A special font is used for expressions that are important to identify, but are
not code.
If the value is null , the returned response will be false .
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