## Typographical Conventions

The following kinds of formatting in the text identify special information.

Formatting convention | Type of Information | Example
Special Bold | Items you must select, such as menu options, command buttons, or items in a list. | Go to the QoS tab.
Titles of chapters, sections, and subsections. | Read the Basic Administration chapter.
Italics | Used to emphasize the importance of a point, to introduce a term or to designate a command line placeholder, which is to be replaced with a real name or value. | The system supports the so called wildcard character search.
`Monospace` | The names of style sheet selectors, files and directories, and CSS fragments. | The license file is located in the `httpdocs/common/license` directory.
Preformatted | On-screen computer output in your command-line sessions; source code in XML, C++, or other programming languages. | `# ls ?al /files` total 14470
Preformatted Bold | What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output. | # cd /root/rpms/php