Typographical conventions used in this document, General conventions, Mouse conventions – Patton electronic 2616RC User Manual

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Model 2616RC T-DAC User Manual

About this guide

Typographical conventions used in this document

This section describes the typographical conventions and terms used in this guide.

General conventions

The procedures described in this manual use the following text conventions:

Mouse conventions

The following conventions are used when describing mouse actions:

Table 1. General conventions

Convention

Meaning

Garamond blue type

Indicates a cross-reference hyperlink that points to a figure, graphic,
table, or section heading. Clicking on the hyperlink jumps you to the ref-
erence. When you have finished reviewing the reference, click on the
Go to Previous View button

in the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader

toolbar to return to your starting point.

Futura bold type

Indicates the names of menu bar options.

Italicized Futura type

Indicates the names of options on pull-down menus.

Futura type

Indicates the names of fields or windows.

Garamond bold type

Indicates the names of command buttons that execute an action.

< >

Angle brackets indicate function and keyboard keys, such as <SHIFT>,
<CTRL>, <C>, and so on.

Are you ready?

All system messages and prompts appear in the Courier font as the
system would display them.

% dir *.*

Bold Courier font indicates where the operator must type a response or
command

Table 2. Mouse conventions

Convention

Meaning

Left mouse button

This button refers to the primary or leftmost mouse button (unless you have
changed the default configuration).

Right mouse button

This button refers the secondary or rightmost mouse button (unless you have
changed the default configuration).

Point

This word means to move the mouse in such a way that the tip of the pointing
arrow on the screen ends up resting at the desired location.

Click

Means to quickly press and release the left or right mouse button (as instructed in
the procedure). Make sure you do not move the mouse pointer while clicking a
mouse button.

Double-click

Means to press and release the same mouse button two times quickly

Drag

This word means to point the arrow and then hold down the left or right mouse but-
ton (as instructed in the procedure) as you move the mouse to a new location.
When you have moved the mouse pointer to the desired location, you can release
the mouse button.

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