On 2013.07.14. 20:57, Warren Block wrote:
On Sun, 14 Jul 2013, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
I find different fonts for filenames and commands to be useful, even
in titles. The O'Reilly style guide doesn't mention anything about
title styles, and in a quick search I did not find anything else.
Ok, it doesn't specify it explicitly but can you show me a technical
book that has such titles? A real, published book, please, not online
docs.
Mastering Regular Expressions (1998), by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl, shows
acronyms in titles in a smaller all-caps size. There is a Perl
chapter with titles including "Modification with \Q and Friends: True
Lies", "The /e Modifier", and "Using /g with a Regex That can Match
Nothingness". The "\Q", "/e", and "/g" in those titles are in a
monospace typewriter font. This is an O'Reilly book, but most of the
other O'Reilly books I checked use the same font for all of the title.
C Programming, A Modern Approach (2008), by K. N. King, has a Loops
chapter with section titles like "The while Loop" and "The do
Statement", where "while" and "do" are in a monospace typewriter font.
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (2001), by W. Richard
Stevens, has section titles like "stat, fstat, and lstat Functions",
"Streams and FILE Objects", and "pty_fork Function". The keywords are
in a monospace typewriter font.
UNIX System Administration Handbook (2001), by Evi Nemeth, shows
keywords in the same font, but bold. In "The /etc/ttys and
/etc/ttytab files", the filenames are bold.
Ok, thank you for investigating this. If it is accepted then I don't
object that much. But please let's keep these at a reasonable extent,
e.g. monspace or italic but no colors.
Gabor
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