Hacking/Introduction/Conventions

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.