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Typographical Conventions

This guide uses special typographic conventions to identify the user interface controls and key terms that appear in the text. The following table describes these conventions:

Text Item

Convention

Example

Entity Name

All uppercase; followed by the word “entity” in lowercase

MOVIE COPY entity

Attribute Name

All lowercase in quotation marks; hyphen replaces embedded spaces

“movie-name”

Column Name

All lowercase

movie_name

Table Name

All uppercase

MOVIE_COPY

Verb Phrase

All lowercase in angle brackets

<is available for rental as>