3. Typographical Conventions
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## 3. Typographical Conventions

The following typographical conventions are used in this guide:

`> command arg ...`

  A command, typed by the user, and its output. The “`>`” character is the command prompt.

`command`

  The name of a program, when used in a sentence, rather than in literal input or output.

`literal`

  Text provided to or received from a computer program.

`placeholder`

  Text that should be replaced with an appropriate value when typing a command.

`\`

  At the end of a line in command or program examples, indicates that a long line of literal input or output continues onto the next line in the document.

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