Typographical Conventions

Table 1 Typography to mark certain content
Convention Meaning
italics Within normal text, words in italics indicate one of the following items:
  • Hypertext, as in a URL
  • A reference to a book title
  • New terms and emphasized words
  • Command variables
monospace Indicates one of the following, depending on the context:
  • The name of a file or the path to the file
  • Output displayed by the system on the command line
monospace (bold) Input provided by an administrator on the command line.
> Indicates a menu item or a navigation path in Oracle FS System Manager (GUI). For example, “Click SAN > Storage > LUNS > Action > Clone” means to click the Clone link on the SAN page in the GUI.
... Indicates that one or more steps have been omitted from the path or menu structure. The ellipsis is used within an expression of a navigation path or within a cascading menu structure. For example, in the SAN > Storage > LUNS > ... > Clone menu structure, the ... implies that one or more menu items have been omitted.