User`s guide

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Typographical Conventions

This manual uses some or all of these conventions.

Item Convention to Use Example

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

enter

A = 5

Function names/syntax Monospace font The cos function finds the

cosine of each array element.

Syntax line example is

MLGetVar ML_var_name

Keys Boldface with an initial

capital letter

Press the Return key.

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 =

Menu names, menu items, and

controls

Boldface with an initial

capital letter

Choose the File menu.

New terms Italics An array is an ordered

collection of information.

String variables (from a finite

list)

Monospace italics

sysc = d2c(sysd,

’method’)