Keyboard and formatting conventions

You can use your product more effectively when you understand how this document uses keyboard and formatting conventions to present information.

Keyboard conventions

Convention	What it means
The NOW site	Refers to the NetApp Support site at now.netapp.com/.
Enter, enter	Used to refer to the key that generates a carriage return; the key is named Return on some keyboards. Used to mean pressing one or more keys on the keyboard and then pressing the Enter key, or clicking in a field in a graphical interface and then typing information into the field.
hyphen (-)	Used to separate individual keys. For example, Ctrl-D means holding down the Ctrl key while pressing the D key.
type	Used to mean pressing one or more keys on the keyboard.

Convention	What it means
Italic font	Words or characters that require special attention. Placeholders for information that you must supply. For example, if the guide says to enter the arp -d `hostname` command, you enter the characters "arp -d" followed by the actual name of the host. Book titles in cross-references.
`Monospaced` font	Command names, option names, keywords, and daemon names. Information displayed on the system console or other computer monitors. Contents of files. File, path, and directory names.
`Bold monospaced` font	Words or characters you type. What you type is always shown in lowercase letters, unless your program is case-sensitive and uppercase letters are necessary for it to work properly.