Bridge User Manual

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BridgeVIEW User Manual xxii © National Instruments Corporation
Conventions Used in This Manual
The following conventions are used in this manual:
bold Bold text denotes a parameter, menu name, palette name, menu item,
return value, function panel item, or dialog box button or option.
italic Italic text denotes mathematical variables, emphasis, a cross reference,
or an introduction to a key concept.
bold italic Bold italic text denotes an activity objective, note, caution, or warning.
monospace
Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should literally enter
from the keyboard. Sections of code, programming examples, and syntax
examples also appear in this font. This font also is used for the proper
names of disk drives, paths, directories, programs, subprograms,
subroutines, device names, variables, filenames, and extensions, and
for statements and comments taken from program code.
monospace bold
Bold text in this font denotes the messages and responses that the computer
automatically prints to the screen. This font also emphasizes lines of code
that are different from the other examples.
monospace italic
Italic text in this font denotes that you must enter the appropriate words or
values in the place of these items.
<> Angle brackets enclose the name of a key on the keyboard—for example,
<PageDown>.
- A hyphen between two or more key names enclosed in angle brackets
denotes that you should simultaneously press the named keys—for
example, <Control-Alt-Delete>.
<Control> Key names are capitalized.
» The » symbol leads you through nested menu items and dialog box options
to a final action. The sequence File»Page Setup»Options»Substitute
Fonts directs you to pull down the File menu, select the Page Setup item,
select Options, and finally select the Substitute Fonts option from the last
dialog box.
paths Paths in this manual are denoted with backslashes (\) to separate drive
names, directories, and files, as in
C:\dir1name\dir2name\filename
.