From 91b4def3bbc1c3fdb09a8fad247e54eedafb6edf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Madsen <sean@seanmadsen.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:19:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Style guide - clarifying formatting for machine readable
 text. Closes #53

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 docs/best-practices/documentation-style-guide.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/best-practices/documentation-style-guide.md b/docs/best-practices/documentation-style-guide.md
index 7bc1fb08..8a5e5855 100644
--- a/docs/best-practices/documentation-style-guide.md
+++ b/docs/best-practices/documentation-style-guide.md
@@ -105,6 +105,10 @@ descriptive names for images.
 
 Alternative Text  (ALT Tags) should be included for every image.
 
+### Machine-readable symbols
+
+Machine-readable symbols (e.g. files names, classes, functions, variables, database tables, database columns, commands, etc.) should be formatted either with inline monospace or preformatted code blocks (also in monospace). See the [markdown syntax](/markdownrules/#code) to use for such formatting.
+
 ### URLs
 
 Sample links to specific CiviCRM URL paths should use `example.org` as the
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