3 Documentation Conventions
The following typographical conventions are used in this manual:
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/etc/passwd: directory names and lenames
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placeholder: replace placeholder with the actual value
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PATH: the environment variable PATH
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ls, --help: commands, options, and parameters
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user: users or groups
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Alt, Alt + F1: a key to press or a key combination; keys are shown in uppercase as
on a keyboard
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File, File > Save As: menu items, buttons
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Dancing Penguins (Chapter Penguins, ↑Another Manual): This is a reference to a
chapter in another manual.
4 About the Making of This Manual
This book is written in Novdoc, a subset of DocBook (see http://www.docbook
.org). The XML source les were validated by xmllint, processed by xsltproc,
and converted into XSL-FO using a customized version of Norman Walsh's stylesheets.
The nal PDF is formatted through XEP from RenderX. The open source tools and the
environment used to build this manual are available in the package daps that is shipped
with openSUSE. The project's home page can be found at http://daps.sf.net/.
5 Source Code
The source code of openSUSE is publicly available. Refer to http://en.opensuse
.org/Source_code for download links and more information.
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