Recommended style conventions
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- Italic
- Used for file names and directory names. Also used to introduce new terms.
Constant width- Used to indicate commands, command lines, and command line switches.
Constant width italic- Used to indicate user-defined input; the user creates the text.
Constant doremon width bold- Used in interactive examples to indicate literal user input.
Preformatted text blocks
- Used for code blocks and multi-line shell output examples where whitespace matters
- [ ]
- Brackets surround optional inputs; omit the brackets when supplying these inputs.