Installation guide

Typographical Conventions

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Typographical Conventions

This manual uses some or all of these conventions.

Item Convention Used Example

Example code Monospace font To assign the value 5 to A,

enter

A = 5

Function names/syntax Monospace font The cos function finds the

cosine of each array element.

Syntax line example is

MLGetVar ML_var_name

Keys Boldface with an initial capital

letter

Press the Return key.

Literal strings (in syntax

descriptions in reference

chapters)

Monospace bold for literals

f = freqspace(n,'whole')

Mathematical

expressions

Italics for variables

Standard text font for functions,

operators, and constants

This vector represents the

polynomial

p = x

+ 2x + 3

MATLAB output

Monospace font MATLAB responds with

A =

Menu titles, menu items,

dialog boxes, and controls

Boldface with an initial capital

letter

Choose the File menu.

New terms Italics An array is an ordered

collection of information.

Omitted input arguments (...) ellipsis denotes all of the

input/output arguments from

preceding syntaxes.

[c,ia,ib] = union(...)

String variables (from a

finite list)

Monospace italics sysc = d2c(sysd,'method')