| The Csound Manual |
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| Introduction HTML Edition
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About the HTML EditionThe HTML Edition is designed to resemble, in both style and substance, the Csound Manual available in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf). You may download a zip file of it. To use it on your own computer, download and upzip the files into an appropriate directory. Start the manual by loading into your browser the file manual.htm which will be in the directory where you unzipped the file. To the extreme left, you will see the Tabs Pane, which jumps to alphabetical headings for the Contents and Index Pane. The Contents and Index Pane, to the right of the Tabs Pane, gives you ready access to any page in the manual. Finally, on the right, the bulk of your browser window is taken up by the manual pages themselves. While the manual is designed primarily for browsers that support frames, users with non-frames browsers should load manual2.htm The HTML Edition is divided into sections, following the pattern established by the Version 4.0 Acrobat Edition. As in the Acrobat Edition, each major category of opcodes has its own section of the manual. In the HTML Edition, however, each section consists of files placed in separate subdirectories. |
At the top and bottom of each page are three navigation buttons. If a particular button is not active for that page, it will be rendered in gray. The buttons are as follows:
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Go the the next page. The manual is laid out in such a fashion, that using this button, it would be possible to begin at the Title Page, and scroll though the entire manual in the order the of the Acrobat Edition. |
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Go to the previous page. |
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Go to the Main Page for the non-frames version of the manual. This may be of limited usefulness to those using the frames version, but is needed for the non-frames version. Clicking on this button from the frames version will remove the frames, and switch to the non-frames version. To return to the frames version, click on "Use Non-Frames Version" at the end of the Table of Contents. |
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An example of an inactive button. |
The section headings,in the left-hand top and bottom corners of each page, indicate the section to which that page belongs, and corresponds to that section in the Acrobat Edition. This heading also provides a link to the corresponding section of the Quick Reference.
The HTML files have been designed relatively simply, in order to give the user the greatest latitude in determining how the manual should look. That said, the user may wish to turn off link underlining, for the sake of clarity and readability. There are many links in this document, and some pages, such as the Index and Table of Contents, have a them in high density. Underlining of all those links can become visually distracting.
We have worked to make this manual as accurate as possible. Errors, however, will happen. If you find a bug, an error, or omission, please report it to the editor.
We hope you find this manual useful in your Csound adventures.
David M. Boothe
Dallas, Texas
