Typographical conventions

Throughout this thesis a number of typographical conventions are used.

Roman regular

Used for plain text. Denotes nothing special at all.

Roman italic

Used to define new terms. The term will appear in the index and glossary. Is also used for emphasizing important words or phrases.

Roman bold

Used for description and table headings.

Constant width

Used for code and protocol related constructs, file names and URLs.

Constant width slanted

Used for code and protocol related constructs that should be substituted for some real value or contents.

Constant width bold

Used to highlight important parts of protocol related constructs.

SMALL CAPITALS

Used for abbreviations. The abbreviation will appear in the index and glossary.

Sans-serif regular

Used for chapter descriptions and table and figure captions. Also used for function declarations in pseudo code.

Sans-serif bold

Used for names of programs and utilities. The name will appear in the index and glossary.