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
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Type of Information
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Example
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Special Bold
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Items you must select, such as menu options, command buttons, or items in a list.
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Go to the
Resources
tab.
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Titles of chapters, sections, and subsections.
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Read the
Basic Administration
chapter.
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Italics
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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.
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These are the so-called
EZ templates
.
To destroy a Container, type
vzctl destroy
ctid
.
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Monospace
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The names of commands, files, and directories.
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Use
vzctl start
to start a Container.
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Preformatted
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On-screen computer output in your command-line sessions; source code in XML, C++, or other programming languages.
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Saved parameters for Container 101
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Monospace Bold
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What you type, as contrasted with on-screen computer output.
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# rpm –V virtuozzo-release
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Key+Key
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Key combinations for which the user must press and hold down one key and then press another.
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Ctrl+P, Alt+F4
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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.
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