: Re: What are standard techniques that indicate to the documentation reader that they are to substitute their own appropriate text (e.g. username, domain)? When reading manuals or guides, I can easily

@Angela458

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I prefer angular brackets <> and hyphenated text inside. For example:

URL format: <your-host-name>:<your-port-number>.com/
The text should be something that would make it obvious for user to understand that it needs to be replaced with actual value. This also takes case of any accessibility considerations.

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