openstack-manuals/doc/common/section_conventions.xml
Anne Gentle ab6b5f6b2f Adds a paragraph about the intended audience
- For each audience, end user and admin user, add
a paragraph in the first section about who the book
is intended for.
- Also edited Conventions and Doc History sections

Change-Id: I89fdbd9b62515357e434b7a27cc26455e1541efc
2014-07-19 09:05:50 -05:00

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0" xml:id="section_conventions">
<?dbhtml stop-chunking?>
<title>Conventions</title>
<para>The OpenStack documentation uses several typesetting conventions.</para>
<simplesect xml:id="conventions-admonitions">
<title>Notices</title>
<para>Notices take these forms:</para>
<note>
<para>A handy tip or reminder.</para>
</note>
<important>
<para>Something you must be aware of before proceeding.</para>
</important>
<warning>
<para>Critical information about the risk of data loss or security issues.</para>
</warning>
</simplesect>
<simplesect xml:id="conventions-prompts">
<title>Command prompts</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold"><prompt>$</prompt> prompt</emphasis></term>
<listitem>
<para>Any user, including the <literal>root</literal> user, can run commands that are
prefixed with the <prompt>$</prompt> prompt.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold"><prompt>#</prompt> prompt</emphasis></term>
<listitem>
<para>The <literal>root</literal> user must run commands that are prefixed with the
<prompt>#</prompt> prompt. You can also prefix these commands with the
<command>sudo</command> command, if available, to run them.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</simplesect>
</section>