September 2004
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
9h 26m
English
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Conventions Used in This Book
The following typographical conventions are used in this book:
- Italic
Used to indicate new terms, URLs, filenames, file extensions, and directories. For example, a path in the filesystem will appear as /Applications/Utilities.
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Constant Width Used to indicate commands, options, classes, keys, properties, utilities, and program names, and to show the contents of files or the output from commands.
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Constant Width Bold Used in examples and tables to show commands or other text that should be typed literally by the user.
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Constant Width Italic Used in examples and tables to show text that should be replaced with user-supplied values.
- Menus/Navigation
Menus and their options are referred to in the text as File → Open, Edit → Copy, etc. Arrows are also used to signify a navigation path when using window options. For example, “System Preferences → Desktop & Screen Saver → Screen Saver” means that you would launch System Preferences, click the icon for the “Desktop & Screen Saver” preference panel, and then select the “Screen Saver” pane within that panel.
- Pathnames
Pathnames are used to show the location of a file or application in the filesystem. Directories (or folders for Mac and Windows users) are separated by a forward slash. For example, if you see something like, “… launch the Terminal application (/Applications/Utilities)” in the text, this means the Terminal application can be found in the Utilities subfolder of the Applications folder.
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