Help Section

• First, if you are seeing the "Frames" feature of HTML coding (i.e., you see four separate boxes of text within the boundaries of your browser and it looks something like the box below), you are viewing this document as it was intended to be viewed. You may view it without Frames, but you won't receive the full presentation of this glossary. The differences you will notice if you do not use the latest browsers are,
  • You must navigate screens one-by-one, using the "forward" and "backward" buttons on your browser. The table of contents will not remain on the screen while you view each section.
  • Many of the formatting charactistics will be invisible to you. For example, the expression "ten squared" may be displayed as "102" instead of displaying the "2" as a superscripted value.
  • Many Greek and mathematical symbols will not appear at all. Instead, a blank space will appear in those places where your browser can not understand the character code.
  • Tables and equations may not display or may display incorrectly.
• The Frame at the bottom of your screen (i.e., the one that starts with a little box named "Welcome") should always be visible when you are viewing this standard. Within this Frame are several boxes you can click on to bring up various pieces of the standard. They are,
• WELCOME - Clicking on this box will display a Welcome message in the upper left Frame.
• HELP - Clicking on this box will display this Help page in the upper left Frame.
• HINTS - Clicking on this box will display a page, in the upper left Frame, that will give you many helpful hints on how to use this Federal Standard quickly and easily.
• MAIN - Clicking on this box will display the main page for the standard (i.e., the page with the spinning logos), in the upper left Frame.
• CREDITS - Clicking on this box will display a page of credits, about the people and organizations that created this document, in the upper left Frame.
• ToC - Clicking on this box will display an abbreviated table of contents, for this standard, in the upper right Frame. The full table of contents, from the standard itself, can be displayed by selecting the "Contents" item from the menu.
• The typical use of this standard would be to read or print a whole section of the standard. The steps to do this are,
  • Click on the "ToC" box (if the "ToC" page is not already in the upper right Frame).
  • Click on the section that you'd like to view. The upper left Frame should display the section that you have selected. The upper right Frame should remain as the table of contents.
  • You can select any highlighted word or phrase within the section to jump directly to the referenced section, table, or figure.