Typographical Conventions Used In This Document; General Conventions - Patton electronics SmartNode Series Software Configuration Manual

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Typographical conventions used in this document

This section describes the typographical conventions and terms used in this guide.

General conventions

In this guide we use certain typographical conventions to distinguish elements of commands and examples. In
general, the conventions we use conform to those found in IEEE POSIX publications. The procedures
described in this manual use the following text conventions:
Convention
Garamond blue type
Futura bold type
Futura bold-italic type
Italicized Futura type
Futura type
Garamond bold type
< >
[ ]
{a | b | c}
blue screen
screen
node
SN
#
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Table 1. General conventions
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Commands and keywords are in boldface font.
Parts of commands, which are related to elements already named by the
user, are in boldface italic font.
Variables for which you supply values are in italic font
Indicates the names of fields or windows.
Indicates the names of command buttons that execute an action.
Angle brackets indicate function and keyboard keys, such as <SHIFT>,
<CTRL>, <C>, and so on.
Elements in square brackets are optional.
Alternative but required keywords are grouped in braces ({ }) and are sepa-
rated by vertical bars ( | )
Information you enter is in
Terminal sessions and information the system displays are in screen font.
The leading IP address or nodename of a SmartNode is substituted with
node in boldface italic font.
The leading SN on a command line represents the nodename of the Smart-
Node
An hash sign at the beginning of a line indicates a comment line.
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font.
blue screen