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This book uses the conventions that are described in:
The following table describes the typographical conventions:
Table 1. Typographical conventions
Style | Purpose |
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italic | Introduces special terminology, denotes cross-references, and citations. |
bold | Highlights interface elements, such as menu names. Denotes signal names. Also used for terms in descriptive lists, where appropriate. |
monospace | Denotes text that you can enter at the keyboard, such as commands, file and program names, and source code. |
| Denotes a permitted abbreviation for a command or option. You can enter the underlined text instead of the full command or option name. |
monospace | Denotes arguments to monospace text where the argument is to be replaced by a specific value. |
monospace bold | Denotes language keywords when used outside example code. |
<and> | Encloses replaceable terms for assembler syntax where they appear in code or code fragments. For example: MRC p15, 0 <Rd>, <CRn>, <CRm>, <Opcode_2> |
small capitals | Used in body text for a few terms that have specific technical meanings, that are defined in the ARM® Glossary. For example, implementation defined, implementation specific, unknown, and unpredictable. |