Conventions used on this site

Printed manuals used to open with a page that explained their own typography, so that readers knew what a hand in the margin or a bold word meant before they ran into one. This site borrows the look of those manuals, so it borrows that page too.

Structure

Each post is treated as a chapter. Sections are numbered 1.1, 1.2, and so on, and subsections 1.1.1, 1.1.2. Figures and tables follow the same scheme: Figure 1-2 is the second figure in a post, and Table 1-1 is the first table.