Technical data

General Preface

Typographical Conventions and Visual Cues

This section discusses:

• Typographical

conventions.

•Visualcues.

• Country, regio

n, and industry identifiers.

• Currency codes

Ty pographical Conventions

This table con

tains the typographical conventions that are u sed in PeopleBooks:

Typographical C onvention or Visual Cue

Description

Bold

Indicates PeopleCode fu nction names, business function

names, event names, system function names, method

names, language constructs, and PeopleCo de reserved

words that m ust b e included literally i n t he function call.

Italics Indicates field values, emphasis, and PeopleSoft

Enterprise or other book-len gth publication titles. In

PeopleCode syntax, italic items are placeholders for

arguments that your program m ust su pply.

We also use italics when we refer to words as words or

letters as letters, as i n t he following: Enter the letter O.

KEY+KEY

Indicates a key combination action. For exam ple, a plus

sign (+) between keys m eans that you must hold down

the first key while you press the second key. For A

LT+W,

hold dow n the A

LT key while you press the W key.

Monospace font

Indicates a PeopleCod e program or other code example.

“ ” (quotation marks) Indicate chapter titles in cross-references and w ords that

are used differently from their intended m eanin gs.

. . . (ellipses) Indicate that the preceding item or series can be repeated

any number o f times in PeopleCod e syntax.

{ } (curly braces) Indicate a choice between two option s in PeopleCode

syntax. Options are separated by a pipe ( | ).