B.3 Conventions: Fonts and symbols
The following table explains the text formatting conventions used in this manual:
Text formatting |
Convention |
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Italic |
Italic characters indicate a placeholder for actual text to be provided by the user or system. For example: YYYYMMDD indicates that a date is specified. |
Bold |
Bold characters indicate text in a window, other than the window title. Such text includes menus, menu options, buttons, radio box options, or explanatory labels. |
Bold > Bold |
Successive bold characters connected by the character > indicate successive selection of menus. For example: Select File > New. The above example instructs you to select New in the File menu. |