<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.5, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Conventions (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))</title> <meta name="description" content="Conventions (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))"> <meta name="keywords" content="Conventions (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> <link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" rel="index" title="Concept Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Introduction.html#Introduction" rel="up" title="Introduction"> <link href="Fonts.html#Fonts" rel="next" title="Fonts"> <link href="Simple-Examples.html#Simple-Examples" rel="prev" title="Simple Examples"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} blockquote.smallindentedblock {margin-right: 0em; font-size: smaller} blockquote.smallquotation {font-size: smaller} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalldisplay {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smallexample {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalllisp {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} pre.smalldisplay {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smallexample {font-size: smaller} pre.smallformat {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smalllisp {font-size: smaller} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="octave.css"> </head> <body lang="en"> <a name="Conventions"></a> <div class="header"> <p> Previous: <a href="Simple-Examples.html#Simple-Examples" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Simple Examples</a>, Up: <a href="Introduction.html#Introduction" accesskey="u" rel="up">Introduction</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <a name="Conventions-1"></a> <h3 class="section">1.3 Conventions</h3> <p>This section explains the notation conventions that are used in this manual. You may want to skip this section and refer back to it later. </p> <table class="menu" border="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Fonts.html#Fonts" accesskey="1">Fonts</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Evaluation-Notation.html#Evaluation-Notation" accesskey="2">Evaluation Notation</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Printing-Notation.html#Printing-Notation" accesskey="3">Printing Notation</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Error-Messages.html#Error-Messages" accesskey="4">Error Messages</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Format-of-Descriptions.html#Format-of-Descriptions" accesskey="5">Format of Descriptions</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top"> </td></tr> </table> </body> </html>