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## Typographical Conventions

Before you start using this guide, it is important to understand the documentation conventions used in it.

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 System 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 commands, files, and directories. | The license file is located in the `http://docs/common/licenses` 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
CAPITALS | Names of keys on the keyboard. | SHIFT, CTRL, ALT
KEY+KEY | Key combinations for which the user must press and hold down one key and then press another. | CTRL+P, ALT+F4