The following typographical conventions are used in the online documentation:
System commands and programs such as grep, awk and dmesg are shown in this manner.
Literal expressions such as select * from user;
are
shown in this manner.
Files and paths such as /etc/shadow
and
/var/log/apache
are shown in this manner.
Variable names in code such as $pwd
and
$SHELL
are shown in this manner.
Constants such as PATH_MAX
are shown in this
manner.
Functions such as strlen
are shown in this
manner.
Function parameters such as len
are shown in this manner.
Classes such as StringIO
are shown in this
manner.
Class methods such as StringIO::read()
are
shown in this manner.
XML markup such as XInclude is shown in this manner.
Links such as Section 3, “Building and Installing” are shown in this manner.