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Conventions used in Director Help and printed books

The help system and printed books use the following conventions:

| The terms Lingo and Director refer to version 8 of Director.
| Within the text and in Lingo examples, Lingo elements and parts of actual code are shown in `this` font. For example, `set answer = 2 + 2` is a sample Lingo statement.
| Quotation marks that are part of Lingo statements are shown in the text and Lingo code examples as straight quotation marks (") rather than as curly quotation marks (").
| The backslash symbol (`\`) indicates that a long line of Lingo has been broken onto two or more lines. Lines of Lingo that are broken this way are not separate lines of code. When you see the backslash symbol at the end of a line in this book, type the lines as one line when you enter them in the Script window. In previous versions of Director the continuation symbol was (`¬`), which you enter by pressing Alt+Enter (Windows) or Option+Return (Macintosh).
| Variables used to represent parameters in Lingo appear in `italics`. For example, `whichCastMember` is commonly used to indicate where you insert the name of a cast member in Lingo.
| Text that you should type is shown in this font.