Typographic conventions – Altera Arria 10 Avalon-MM User Manual

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Typographic Conventions

The following table shows the typographic conventions this document uses.

Table C-1: Visual CueMeaning

Visual Cue

Meaning

Bold Type with Initial Capital Letters

Indicate command names, dialog box titles, dialog

box options, and other GUI labels. For example,

Save As dialog box. For GUI elements, capitaliza‐

tion matches the GUI.

bold type

Indicates directory names, project names, disk drive

names, file names, file name extensions, software

utility names, and GUI labels. For example, \

qdesigns directory, D: drive, and chiptrip.gdf file.

Italic Type with Initial Capital Letters

Indicate document titles. For example, Stratix IV

Design Guidelines.

italic type

Indicates variables. For example, n + 1.
Variable names are enclosed in angle brackets (< >).

For example, <file name> and <project name> .pof

file.

Initial Capital Letters

Indicate keyboard keys and menu names. For

example, the Delete key and the Options menu.

“Subheading Title”

Quotation marks indicate references to sections in a

document and titles of Quartus II Help topics. For

example, “Typographic Conventions.”

Courier type

Indicates signal, port, register, bit, block, and

primitive names. For example,

data1

,

tdi

, and

input

. The suffix

n

denotes an active-low signal.

For example,

resetn

.

Indicates command line commands and anything

that must be typed exactly as it appears. For

example,

c:\qdesigns\tutorial\chiptrip.gdf

.

Also indicates sections of an actual file, such as a

Report File, references to parts of files (for example,

the AHDL keyword

SUBDESIGN

), and logic function

names (for example,

TRI

).

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Typographic Conventions

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