Installation guide

The first example highlights a particular key to press. The second example highlights a key combination:

a set of three keys pressed simultaneously.

If source code is discussed, class names, methods, functions, variable names and returned values

mentioned within a paragraph will be presented as above, in mono-spaced bold. For example:

File-related classes include filesystem for file systems, file for files, and dir for

directories. Each class has its own associated set of permissions.

Proportional Bold

This denotes words or phrases encountered on a system, including application names; dialog box text;

labeled buttons; check-box and radio button labels; menu titles and sub-menu titles. For example:

Choose System → Preferences → Mouse from the main menu bar to launch Mouse

Preferences. In the Buttons tab, select the Left-handed mouse check box and click

Close to switch the primary mouse button from the left to the right (making the mouse

suitable for use in the left hand).

To insert a special character into a gedit file, choose Applications → Accessories →

Character Map from the main menu bar. Next, choose Search → Find… from the

Character Map menu bar, type the name of the character in the Search field and click

Next. The character you sought will be highlighted in the Character Table. Double-click

this highlighted character to place it in the T ext to copy field and then click the Copy

button. Now switch back to your document and choose Edit → Paste from the gedit menu

bar.

The above text includes application names; system-wide menu names and items; application-specific

menu names; and buttons and text found within a GUI interface, all presented in proportional bold and all

distinguishable by context.

Mono-spaced Bold Italic or Proportional Bold Italic

Whether mono-spaced bold or proportional bold, the addition of italics indicates replaceable or variable

text. Italics denotes text you do not input literally or displayed text that changes depending on

circumstance. For example:

To connect to a remote machine using ssh, type ssh username@ domain.name at a shell

prompt. If the remote machine is exam ple.com and your username on that machine is

john, type ssh john@exam ple.com.

The m ount -o remount file-system command remounts the named file system. For

example, to remount the /home file system, the command is mount -o rem ount /home.

To see the version of a currently installed package, use the rpm -q package command. It

will return a result as follows: package-version-release.

Note the words in bold italics above — username, domain.name, file-system, package, version and

release. Each word is a placeholder, either for text you enter when issuing a command or for text

displayed by the system.

Aside from standard usage for presenting the title of a work, italics denotes the first use of a new and

important term. For example:

Publican is a DocBook publishing system.

Red Hat Satellite 5.6 Client Configuration Guide