<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Conventions - GNU Octave</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="GNU Octave"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Introduction.html#Introduction" title="Introduction"> <link rel="prev" href="Simple-Examples.html#Simple-Examples" title="Simple Examples"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Conventions"></a> <p> Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Simple-Examples.html#Simple-Examples">Simple Examples</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Introduction.html#Introduction">Introduction</a> <hr> </div> <h3 class="section">1.3 Conventions</h3> <p>This section explains the notational conventions that are used in this manual. You may want to skip this section and refer back to it later. <ul class="menu"> <li><a accesskey="1" href="Fonts.html#Fonts">Fonts</a> <li><a accesskey="2" href="Evaluation-Notation.html#Evaluation-Notation">Evaluation Notation</a> <li><a accesskey="3" href="Printing-Notation.html#Printing-Notation">Printing Notation</a> <li><a accesskey="4" href="Error-Messages.html#Error-Messages">Error Messages</a> <li><a accesskey="5" href="Format-of-Descriptions.html#Format-of-Descriptions">Format of Descriptions</a> </ul> </body></html>