BlueCielo Meridian Explorer 2018 User's Guide

Understanding the typographic conventions

The table below describes the typographic conventions used throughout this manual.

Typographic conventions
Convention Example Description
bold Edit Named user interface elements: menu items, button names, dialog box titles, dialog box options, icons, and so on. 
italic BlueCielo Meridian Explorer Administrator’s Guide Names of other documents. 
monospace
 
Document.DisplayName
 Programming code, configuration file settings, and file system paths and folder names. Also user-defined code elements appearing in the narrative text. 
light gray
background
                    
Call WinMsgBox(“Hello, world!”)
 Programming examples that include sample data and are not intended to be used without modification.
bold Document.Log(Line) Named code elements: events, procedures, functions, objects, classes, methods, object properties, constants, and so on appearing in the narrative text except user-defined code elements. Variables and parameters appear in italic type.
italic local workspace Introduction of a new term and its definition. Many terms can also be found in the Glossary if one is included in the guide.
bold monospace 
regsvr32 /u
 Command-line commands and parameters.
default font F5, Ctrl+O Key names, combinations, and sequences.
italic <DocumentName> Placeholders
bold+blue Note

Note    Related information that is not directly applicable to the adjacent text or might be useful under uncommon circumstances, supplemental, an aside.

Tip    
Information for intermediate to advanced users on how to use the adjacent text in a more efficient or productive way.

Warning    
Information that, if not heeded, could result in lost data or accidents.
bold DisplayName Meridian Explorer property names

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