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  <title>Documents</title>
  
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  <para>This document uses the following conventions<footnote>
      <para>Please, take a look at the <ulink
      url="sgml/conventions.sgml">source</ulink> to see how to get
      similar results on your documents. You should also remember that
      the way this appears to you depends on the format you're reading
      this document: online appearance is slightly different from the
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    <tgroup cols="2">
      <thead>
        <row>
          <entry>Descriptions</entry>
          <entry>Appearance</entry>
        </row>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        <row>
          <entry>Warnings</entry>
          <entry><caution>
              <para>Warnings.</para>
            </caution></entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry>Hint</entry>
          <entry><tip>
              <para>Hint.</para>
            </tip></entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry>Notes</entry>
          <entry><note>
              <para>Note.</para>
            </note></entry>
        <row>
          <entry>Informations requiring special atention</entry>
          <entry><warning>
              <para>Warning.</para>
            </warning></entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry>File Names</entry>
          <entry><filename>file.extension</filename></entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry>Directory Names</entry>
          <entry><filename class="directory">directory</filename></entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry>Commands to be typed</entry>
          <entry><command>command</command></entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry>Applications Names</entry>
          <entry><application>application</application></entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry><foreignphrase>Prompt</foreignphrase> of users command</entry>
          <entry>$</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry><foreignphrase>Prompt</foreignphrase> of root users command</entry>
          <entry>#</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry>Environment Variables</entry>
          <entry><envar>VARIABLE</envar></entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry>Emphasized work</entry>
          <entry><emphasis>word</emphasis></entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry>Code Example</entry>
          <entry><programlisting><sgmltag class="starttag">para</sgmltag>Beginning and end of paragraph<sgmltag class="endtag">para</sgmltag></programlisting></entry> 
        </row>
      </tbody>
  </informaltable>
  
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