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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