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Typographic Conventions
TABLE P-1 shows the typographic conventions that are used in Sun WorkShop
documentation.
TABLE P-1
Typographic Conventions
Typeface
Meaning
Examples
AaBbCc123
The names of commands, files,
and directories; on-screen
computer output
Edit your .login file.
Use ls -a to list all files.
% You have mail.
AaBbCc123
What you type, when
contrasted with on-screen
computer output
% su
Password:
AaBbCc123
Book titles, new words or terms,
words to be emphasized
Read Chapter 6 in the User’s Guide.
These are called class options.
You must be superuser to do this.
AaBbCc123
Command-line placeholder text;
replace with a real name or
value
To delete a file, type rm filename.
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The symbol ∆ stands for a blank space where a blank is significant:
∆∆36.001
4
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Nonstandard features are tagged with the symbol “✠”. Standards are discussed in
Chapter 1.
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FORTRAN examples appear in tab format, not fixed columns. See the discussion
of source line formats in the Fortran User’s Guide for details.
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The FORTRAN 77 standard uses an older convention of spelling the name
"FORTRAN" capitalized. Sun documentation uses both FORTRAN and Fortran.
The current convention is to use lower case: "Fortran 95".
FORTRAN 77 Language Reference • May 2000