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Revision as of 01:19, 31 January 2012

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Typographic Conventions

The PC-BSD Handbook uses the following typographic conventions:

bold text: represents a command written at the command line. In usage examples, the font is changed with any command output displayed in unbolded text.
italic text: used to represent device names or file name paths.
bold italic text: used to emphasize an important point.

Language usage and word choice

To facilitate future translations avoid the following:

Contractions
in place of don't, can't or won't use do not, cannot, or will not.
Avoid brand names
use web search instead of Google search

Special Characters

Traversal of menus/windows
use an arrow (➜) as in the example: PC-BSD control panel ➜ System manager ➜ System packages {tab}
Reference
Punctuation
  • apostrophe ( ’ ' )
  • brackets ( [ ], ( ), { }, ⟨ ⟩ )
  • colon ( : )
  • comma ( , )
  • dash ( ‒, –, —, ― )
  • ellipsis ( …, ..., . . . )
  • exclamation mark ( ! )
  • full stop/period ( . )
  • guillemets ( « » )
  • hyphen ( ‐ )
  • hyphen-minus ( - )
  • question mark ( ? )
  • quotation marks ( ‘ ’, “ ”, ' ', " " )
  • semicolon ( ; )
  • slash/stroke ( / )
  • solidus ( ⁄ )
Word dividers
  • space ( ) ( ) ( ) (␠) (␢) (␣)
  • interpunct ( · )
General typography
  • ampersand ( & )
  • at sign ( @ )
  • asterisk ( * )
  • backslash ( \ )
  • bullet ( • )
  • caret ( ^ )
  • dagger ( †, ‡ )
  • degree ( ° )
  • ditto mark ( 〃 )
  • inverted exclamation mark ( ¡ )
  • inverted question mark ( ¿ )
  • number sign/pound/hash/octothorpe ( # )
  • numero sign ( № )
  • obelus ( ÷ )
  • ordinal indicator ( º, ª )
  • percent etc. ( %, ‰, ‱ )
  • pilcrow ( ¶ )
  • prime ( ′, ″, ‴ )
  • section sign ( § )
  • tilde ( ~ )
  • underscore/understrike ( _ )
  • vertical/broken bar, pipe ( ¦, | )
Intellectual property
  • copyright symbol ( © )
  • registered trademark ( ® )
  • sound recording copyright ( ℗ )
  • service mark ( ℠ )
  • trademark ( ™ )
  • → ➿ ➙ ➜ arrows pointing to the right
  • ← arrow pointing to the left
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