Monday, June 7, 2021

A Note about Typography


I use specific typography to indicate specific special meaning for certain words, phrases and strings. Hopefully, this will help make things clearer when I write about various things on this site.

Italic is used for:

  • Email Addresses
  • Uniform Resources Locators (URLs)
  • Program Names
  • Protocol Commands
  • Filename and directory pathnames

Constant width is used for:

  • Computer output in examples and text
  • Source code examples

Constant width bold is used for:

  • Program invocation commands (e.g. what you would type at a command prompt)

Bold is used for:

  • indicating a system login

Bold Italic is used for:

  • indicating an application specific login

Note that I vary from this when the topic of a particular post is not technical and none of these conventions are useful.

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