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<section id="conventions">
  <title>Document Conventions</title>

  <indexterm zone="conventions">
    <primary>conventions</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <para>This document uses the following conventions:</para>

  <informaltable frame="none">
    <tgroup cols="2">
      <thead>
        <row>
          <entry>Descriptions</entry>

          <entry>Appearance</entry>
        </row>
      </thead>

      <tbody>
        <row>
          <entry>Warnings</entry>

          <entry>
            <caution>
              <para>Don't run with scissors!</para>
            </caution>
          </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Hint</entry>

          <entry>
            <tip>
              <para>Would you like a breath mint?</para>
            </tip>
          </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Notes</entry>

          <entry>
            <note>
              <para>Dear John...</para>
            </note>
          </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Information requiring special attention</entry>

          <entry>
            <warning>
              <para>Read this or the cat gets it.</para>
            </warning>
          </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>File Names</entry>

          <entry>
            <filename>filename</filename>
          </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Directory Names</entry>

          <entry>
            <filename class="directory">directory</filename>
          </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Commands to be typed</entry>

          <entry>
            <command>command</command>
          </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Applications Names</entry>

          <entry>
            <application>application</application>
          </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>
          <foreignphrase>Prompt</foreignphrase>

          of users command under bash shell</entry>

          <entry>bash$</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>
          <foreignphrase>Prompt</foreignphrase>

          of root users command under bash shell</entry>

          <entry>bash#</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>
          <foreignphrase>Prompt</foreignphrase>

          of user command under tcsh shell</entry>

          <entry>tcsh$</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Environment Variables</entry>

          <entry>
            <envar>VARIABLE</envar>
          </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Emphasized word</entry>

          <entry>
            <emphasis>word</emphasis>
          </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Term found in the glossary</entry>

          <entry>
            <glossterm linkend="gloss-bugzilla">Bugzilla</glossterm>
          </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Code Example</entry>

          <entry>
            <programlisting><sgmltag class="starttag">para</sgmltag>
Beginning and end of paragraph
<sgmltag class="endtag">para</sgmltag></programlisting>
          </entry>
        </row>
      </tbody>
    </tgroup>
  </informaltable>
</section>

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