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1.5 Typesetting Conventions Used in this Manual

TODO keywords, tags, properties, etc.​

Org uses various syntactical elements: TODO keywords, tags, property names, keywords, blocks, etc. In this manual we use the following conventions:

‘TODO’​

‘WAITING’​

TODO keywords are written with all capitals, even if they are user-defined.

‘boss’​

‘ARCHIVE’​

Tags are case-sensitive. User-defined tags are written in lowercase; built-in tags with special meaning are written as they should appear in the document, usually with all capitals.

‘Release’​

‘PRIORITY’​

User-defined properties are capitalized; built-in properties with special meaning are written with all capitals.

‘TITLE’​

‘BEGIN’ … ‘END’​

Keywords and blocks are written in uppercase to enhance their readability, but you can use lowercase in your Org files.

Key bindings and commands​

The manual lists both the keys and the corresponding commands for accessing a functionality. Org mode often uses the same key for different functions, depending on context. The command that is bound to such keys has a generic name, like org-metaright. In the manual we will, wherever possible, give the function that is internally called by the generic command. For example, in the chapter on document structure, M-RIGHT will be listed to call org-do-demote, while in the chapter on tables, it will be listed to call org-table-move-column-right.