Conventions Used in This Book

Flip through this book, and you'll find different uses of type to point out different things. Here's what I do:

  • In the step-by-step directions, the actions you perform are in bold type, like this. The description of what happens after the action is in normal type.
  • To point out a web address, the book uses a font that looks like this: www.apple.com. You'll see the same font in the rare instances when I show you something that you need to type in a command line (in the Mac's Terminal application), such as fsck –fy, and for text that a command line returns to you in response. I also use monofont to indicate folders. For example, to indicate the Utilities folder, which is inside the Applications folder, I say /Applications/Utilities.
  • In other rare cases when you need to use a menu at the top of the screen, this book uses a convention that looks like this: FileimageGet Info, which means you need to choose Get Info from the File menu. For menus that aren't at the top of the screen, such as pop-up menus, I don't use this convention. Don't worry; I almost never ask you to use menus at the top of the screen in this book, so you rarely see this.

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