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1.3 Typesetting conventions

The following table showcases the typesetting conventions used in this manual to attribute various meanings to text. Note that not all of the conventions are typographically distinct.

-a
--abcdef

command-line options (e.g., -C or - -help )

ABCDEF

environment variables (e.g., PATH )

<abcdef>

nonterminals in the coNCePTuaL grammar (e.g.,  <ident>)

abcdef

commands to enter on the keyboard (e.g.,  make install)

abcdef

file and directory names (e.g., conceptual.pdf)

ABCDEF

coNCePTuaL keywords (e.g., RECEIVE)

abcdef

variables, constants, functions, and types in any language (e.g., bit_errors or gettimeofday())

abcdef

metasyntactic variables and formal function parameters (e.g., fan-out)

‘abcdef’

snippets of code, command lines, files, etc. (e.g., ‘10 MOD 3’)
Scott Pakin, pakin@lanl.gov