Document Conventions
This section lists the common typographical and symbol use conventions for AWS technical publications.
Typographical Conventions
This section describes common typographical use conventions.
Description/Example
Convention
A call-out is a number in the body text to give you a visual reference. The
reference point is for further discussion elsewhere.
You can use this resource regularly.
Call-outs
Inline code samples (including XML) and commands are identified with a
special font.
You can use the command
java -version
.
Code in text
Blocks of sample code are set apart from the body and marked accordingly.
# ls -l /var/www/html/index.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1872 Jun 21 09:33
/var/www/html/index.html
# date
Wed Jun 21 09:33:42 EDT 2006
Code blocks
Unusual or important words and phrases are marked with a special font.
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Emphasis
References to a section in the same document are marked.
Internal cross references
A special font is used for expressions that are important to identify, but are
not code.
If the value is
null
, the returned response will be
false
.
Logical values,
constants, and regular
expressions, abstracta
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