AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

Conventions Used in This Book

The following conventions are used in this book:

Italic

Used for file and folder names, URLs, and new terms when they are defined.

Constant width

Used for code examples and the names of variables, handlers, and commands.

Constant-width italic

Used for placeholders in code, where the programmer would supply the actual name of something.

Constant-width bold

Used in code examples, for user input from the command line; often seen in conjunction with %, which symbolizes the shell prompt.

-- code comment in italic

Used in code examples, for my comments to the reader about the code or its effect.

-- code comment in bold

Used in code examples, to represent the result (output) of executing the line.

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Used in syntax templates to indicate alternatives.

[square brackets]

Used in syntax templates to indicate that something is optional.

¬

Used to indicate a line of code that continues; these lines will be unbroken in your code but were too long to fit on the printed pages of this book.

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