The present WWW structure is the working structure of the LAC Hyperguide group and of a few researchers at IDA in Linköping, and it is under construction. It should be considered as an unpublished and incomplete manuscript.
The structure is intended to consist of four parts: hyperguide(s), bibliographic information, and archive, and calendarium.
The hyperguide part of this structure consists mostly of running text describing some aspect of this scientific topoic. Those parts are merely proposals or outlines by some members of the group, and have been put here for the other members of the group to look at and to discuss. No part of this structure can be assumed to be the opinion of the working group or of any particular member in it.
The other parts of the structure have a directory character, listing persons, publications, research groups, etc. These parts are presently merely samples, intended to illustrate the proposed structure and layout. They are not to be considered as working registers.
The Colloquium structure consists of HTML ("web") pages and postscript texts which have been generated from Latex. The HTML pages have been designed in such a way that they should come out well on the Netscape screen with the fontstyle option "Large" or "Huge". To print these pages, it is recommended to reset the fontstyle to "Medium".
Postscript pages have been formatted so that they come out well in the A5 size media setting in the Ghostview viewer. (It is intended that the page shall only occupy part of the workstation screen, also allowing space for the web viewer and other windows). If printed on A4 size paper, they come out in the lower-left part of the paper, thereby leaving the upper and right side of the paper for notes. Note that in either case, the page surface corresponds to that of an ordinary book.
The icon containing a question mark (dark yellow color) refers to administrative information for the respective section or chapter. The icon containing a cog wheel (blue color), finally, indicates that no information has yet been constructed.
The text is largely self-explanatory. Footnotes are collected at the end of the HTML text, and references to the footnote are written like <1>, <2>, etc in the text. These references are clickable, and brings one to the respective footnote. In the paper printout, one has to refer to the end of the printout in order to look up the footnote.
References to other parts of the colloquium structure are denoted with a mnemonic within brackets, for example [topic]. These references are clickable, and refers one to the respective other document. In the paper printout, each division (in HTML or postscript) is labelled with its mnemonic name at the top of the first page. Thus, when reading the reference [topic] in the printout of one text, one has to find the printout with this label on its top in order to follow the reference.
To summarize:
<1> in an HTML file is clickable, and refers to a footnote at the end of the same file.
<A> in a postscript file is indirectly clickable: the same code should occur in the reference page of the present postscript file, and the code on the reference page is clickable.
[mnemonic] in an HTML file, if clickable, is a link to another file (HTML or postscript). (If it refers to a postscript file with a matching reference file, then the link goes to the reference file, and it in turn contains a link to the postscript file).