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Conventions Used in This Manual
The following conventions are used in this manual:
»
The » symbol leads you through nested menu items and dialog box
options to a final action. The sequence File»Page Setup»Options»
Substitute Fonts directs you to pull down the File menu, select the
Page Setup item, select Options, and finally select the Substitute Fonts
option from the last dialog box.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a note, which alerts
you to important information.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a caution, which
advises you of precautions to take to avoid injury, data loss, or a
system crash.
bold
Bold text denotes the names of menus, menu items, dialog boxes, dialog
box buttons or options, icons, windows, or Windows tabs.
bold italic
Bold italic text denotes a note or caution.
bold monospace
Bold text in this font denotes the messages and responses that the
computer automatically prints to the screen.
IEEE 488 and
IEEE 488 and IEEE 488.2 refer to the ANSI/IEEE Standard 488.1-1987
IEEE 488.2
and the ANSI/IEEE Standard 488.2-1992, respectively, which define
the GPIB.
italic
Italic text denotes disk names, emphasis, a cross reference, or an
introduction to a key concept.
italic monospace
Italic text in this font denotes that you must supply the appropriate
words or values in the place of these items.
monospace
Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should literally enter
from the keyboard, sections of code, programming examples, and
syntax examples. This font is also used for the proper names of disk
drives, paths, directories, programs, subprograms, subroutines, device
names, functions, operations, variables, filenames and extensions, and
for statements and comments taken from programs.
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