To make this manual easier to use, we've followed a few conventions in notation and names.
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Important ideas are italicized the first time they appear.
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Text that is entered at the keyboard or displayed on the screen and commands and their options available through the Interactive Optimizer appear in
this typeface
, for example, set preprocessing aggregator n
.
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Entries that you must fill in appear in this typeface; for example,
write
filename.
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The names of C routines and parameters in the ILOG CPLEX Callable Library begin with
CPX
; the names of C++ classes in the CPLEX Concert Technology Library begin with Ilo
; and both appear in this typeface
, for example, CPXcopyobjnames
or IloCplex
.
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The names of Java classes begin with
Ilo
and appear in this typeface
, for example, IloCplex
.
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The name of a class or method in C#.NET is written as concatenated words with the first letter of each word in upper case, for example,
IntVar
or IntVar.VisitChildren
. Generally, accessors begin with the key word Get
. Accessors for Boolean members begin with Is
. Modifiers begin with Set
.
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Combinations of keys from the keyboard are hyphenated. For example, control-c indicates that you should press the control key and the c key simultaneously. The symbol
<return>
indicates end of line or end of data entry. On some keyboards, the key is labeled enter or Enter.