Help Section of T1 Glossary 2000

• The typical use of this glossary is to look up a particular term or definition. The steps to do this are:
  
  
  • Click on the "A-Z" box (if the "A-Z" page is not already in the upper right Frame).
    
    
  • Click on the letter of the alphabet for the term you'd like to view. The upper right Frame should change to the listing of all the term names that begin with that letter.
    
    
  • Use the vertical slide bar along the right edge of that Frame until you can see the term name you'd like to view.
    
    
  • Click on that term name. The upper left Frame should display the definition(s) for the term you have selected. The upper right Frame should remain as the listing for the letter of the alphabet.
    
    
  • You can select any highlighted word within the definition to jump to that new term and definition, or you may select another definition from the list on the right.
    
    
  • If you see this icon within a definition, that means that an illustration accompanies the text. Click on the icon and the illustration will appear in the frame where the definition was.
    
    
  • If you see this icon within a definition, that means that auditory information is available to help demonstrate the definition. Click on the icon and the audio information will be downloaded to your computer. If your computer is configured to play WAV files, you will hear the sounds. If not, you will get an error message that the file cannot be played on your system. Many programs are available over the internet that will allow your system to play WAV files.
    
    
  • If you see this icon within a definition, that means that video information is available to help demonstrate the definition. Click on the icon and the video information will be downloaded to your computer. If your computer or browser is configured to play AVI video files, you will see (and hear, if sound is included with the video) the video file. If not, you will get an error message that the file cannot be played on your system. Many programs are available over the internet that will allow your system to play AVI video files.
  
  
• 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), 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 version of a popular browsers are:
  
  
  • You must navigate screens one-by-one, using the "forward" and "backward" buttons on your browser. The list of term names will not remain on the screen while you view each definition.
    
    
  • Several of the formatting charactistics will be invisible to you. For example, the expression "ten squared" will 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 cannot 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 T1 Glossary 2000. Within this Frame are several boxes you can click on to bring up various pieces of T1 Glossary 2000. 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.
    
    
  • A-Z - Clicking on this box will display a letter-by-letter listing of all definitions in the glossary, in the upper right Frame. This is the button you will probably use most often.
    
    
  • FILES - Clicking on this box will display a page, in the upper left Frame, that has a listing of related files that are available for you to download.
    
    
  • Search Engine - Clicking on this icon (or clicking on the words "Search Engine" in the upper right Frame) brings up a search engine that will search the entire 8,000 entries in the glossary for any string of characters. Searches for small character strings (no more than 10 characters) should take approximately 5 seconds or so to complete. Searches for longer strings, or that return many matches (e.g., searching for the word "the"), will take an increasingly longer amount of time.
    
    
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