1.2. Conventions Used in Getting Started

The following typographic conventions are used in the Getting Started manual:

A numbered step tells you exactly what to do:

  1. Change the value to 0.0 and press Enter.

UNIX and DOS level commands are denoted in a fixed-width font. Never type the leading % - it indicates that the command is to be issued at a shell prompt.

% ensight_client -cm

Menu selections use "→" to indicate the selection hierarchy. For example, Tools → Plane → Line means to select Plane from the Tools menu and then select Line from the Plane cascade menu.

Tips, notes, important and caution tags provide particularly important information:


Tip:  Text emphasized in this fashion is a tip.



Note:  Text emphasized in this fashion is a note.



Important:  Text emphasized in this fashion is an admonition that is more significant than a note and less significant than a caution.



Caution:  Text emphasized in this fashion indicates that data loss is possible.