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authorPeter Eisentraut2013-06-01 02:42:27 +0000
committerPeter Eisentraut2013-06-01 02:45:03 +0000
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doc: Remove paragraph about typesetting conventions
They no longer match reality with the web site style sheets, and it is difficult to keep the up to date in a CSS world.
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<title>Conventions</title>
<para>
- This book uses the following typographical conventions to mark
- certain portions of text: new terms, foreign phrases, and other
- important passages are emphasized in <emphasis>italics</>.
- Everything that represents input or output of the computer, in
- particular commands, program code, and screen output, is shown in a
- monospaced font (<literal>example</literal>). Within such
- passages, italics (<replaceable>example</replaceable>) indicate
- placeholders; you must insert an actual value instead of the placeholder.
- On occasion, parts of program code are emphasized in bold face
- (<emphasis role="bold"><literal>example</></>), if they have been
- added or changed since the preceding example.
- </para>
-
- <para>
The following conventions are used in the synopsis of a command:
brackets (<literal>[</literal> and <literal>]</literal>) indicate
optional parts. (In the synopsis of a Tcl command, question marks