Typographical conventions

In this book, we'll mark some words with special typography:

Applications
Commands you type at the command line
Labels for buttons and other portions of the graphical interface
Menu selections look like this: Menu->Submenu->Menu Item
Buttons you can click
Anything you type in
Text output from a computer
Words that are defined in the Glossary.

We'll provide assorted bits of additional information in tips set off from the rest of the book, as well.

Tip: Tips and bits of extra information will look like this.

Examples are also set off from the rest of the text. They look like this:

Example 1. Example Example

This is what an example looks like. We'll provide examples for some of the more complicated tasks you might be performing.

Lastly, we'll have warnings, in cases where you should be careful:

Example Warning

This is what a warning looks like. If there's a chance you'll run into trouble, we'll warn you beforehand.