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CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS GUIDE

This manual uses the following documentation conventions:

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DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS

Description

Represents

Examples

Arial font:

Italic characters

Referenced books

Emphasized text

...is the only compiler...

Initial caps

A window

the Output window

A dialog

the Settings dialog

A menu selection

select Enable Programmer

Quotes

A field name in a window or

dialog

“Save project before build”

Underlined, italic text with

right angle bracket

A menu path

File>Save

Bold characters

A dialog button

Click OK

A tab

Click the Power tab

N‘Rnnnn

A number in verilog format,

where N is the total number of

digits, R is the radix and n is a

digit.

4‘b0010, 2‘hF1

Text in angle brackets < >

A key on the keyboard

Press <Enter>, <F1>

Courier New font:

Plain Courier New

Sample source code

#define START

Filenames

autoexec.bat

File paths

c:\mcc18\h

Keywords

_asm, _endasm, static

Command-line options

-Opa+, -Opa-

Bit values

0, 1

Constants

0xFF, ‘A’

Italic Courier New

A variable argument

file.o

, where file can be

any valid filename

Square brackets [ ]

Optional arguments

mcc18 [options] file

[options]

Curly brackets and pipe

character: { | }

Choice of mutually exclusive

arguments; an OR selection

errorlevel {0|1}

Ellipses...

Replaces repeated text

var_name [, var_name...]

Represents code supplied by

user

void main (void)

{ ...

}