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Documentation Conventions

Before you start using this guide, it is important to understand the documentation conventions used in it.

The table below presents the existing formatting conventions.

Formatting convention

Type of Information

Example

Special Bold

Items you must select, such as menu options, command buttons, or items in a list.

Go to the Resources tab.

Titles of chapters, sections, and subsections.

Read the Basic Administration chapter.

Italics

Used to emphasize the importance of a point, to introduce a term or to designate a command-line placeholder, which is to be replaced with a real name or value.

These are the so-called EZ templates .

To destroy a Container, type vzctl destroy ctid .

Monospace

The names of commands, files, and directories.

Use vzctl start to start a Container.

Preformatted

On-screen computer output in your command-line sessions; source code in XML, C++, or other programming languages.

Saved parameters for Container 101

Monospace Bold

What you type, as contrasted with on-screen computer output.

# rpm –V virtuozzo-release

Key+Key

Key combinations for which the user must press and hold down one key and then press another.

Ctrl+P, Alt+F4

Besides the formatting conventions, you should also know about the document organization convention applied to Parallels documents: chapters in all guides are divided into sections, which, in their turn, are subdivided into subsections. For example, About This Guide is a section, and Documentation Conventions is a subsection.