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 when one of these conventions are useful.
