User`s guide

Preface

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Typographical Conventions

This guide uses some or all of these conventions.

Item Convention Example

Example code Monospace font To assign the value 5 to A,

enter

A = 5

Function names, syntax,

filenames, directory/folder

names, and user input

Monospace font The cos function finds the

cosine of each array element.

Syntax line example is

MLGetVar ML_var_name

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Literal strings (in syntax

descriptions in reference

chapters)

Monospace bold for literals

f = freqspace(n,'whole')

Mathematical

expressions

Italics for variables

Standard text font for functions,

operators, and constants

This vector represents the

polynomial p = x

+ 2x + 3.

MATLAB output

Monospace font MATLAB responds with

A =

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menu.

New terms and for

emphasis

Italics An array is an ordered

collection of information.

Omitted input arguments (...) ellipsis denotes all of the

input/output arguments from

preceding syntaxes.

[c,ia,ib] = union(...)

String variables (from a

finite list)

Monospace italics sysc = d2c(sysd,'method')