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## Typographical Conventions

The following kinds of formatting in the text identify special information.

Formatting convention | Type of Information | Example
Special Bold | Items you must select, such as menu options, command buttons, or items in a list. | Go to the QoS tab.
Titles of chapters, sections, and subsections. | Read the Basic Administration chapter.
Italics | 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. | The system supports the so called wildcard character search.
`Mo`nospace`` | The names of style sheet selectors, files and directories, and CSS fragments. | The license file is called `license.key`.
Preformatted Bold | What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output. | Unix/Linux: # cd /root/rpms/php Windows: >cd %myfolder%
    Preformatted
| On-screen computer output in your command-line sessions; source code in XML, C++, or other programming languages. | Unix/Linux: # ls –al /files
    total 14470
Windows: >ping localhost
    Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128