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Convention
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Use
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Bold
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• Window and menu items
• Technical terms, when introduced
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Italics
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• Book titles
• Variable names
• Emphasized words
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Fixed Font
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• File and folder names
• Commands and code examples
• Text you must type
• Text (output) displayed in the command-line interface
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Blue
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• Links
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>
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• Submenu selections, such as Generate Reports > All
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Brackets, such as [value]
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• Optional parameters of a command
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Braces, such as {value}
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• Required parameters of a command
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Logical OR, such as
value1 | value2 |
• Exclusive parameters. Choose one parameter.
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