Typographic and Other Conventions

This section contains a summary of the typographic styles we use throughout the text to identify various entities, including a list of our file extension conventions.

1. A slant font like this is used for technical terms (and possibly variations thereof) that are appearing either for the first time, or later in a different context, or perhaps to call your attention to the term again for some reason.

2. An italic font like this is used for emphasizing short words, phrases, and occasionally sentences of a nontechnical nature.

3. A typewriter-like monospaced font like this is used for all code, for showing input to and output from programs, for links, and for showing contents of text files.

4. A bold font like this ...

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