How to get the most out of documentation

This is the growing collection of online documentation about electronic publishing and the use of documents in research and academic computing.

17 January 2009 (rev 1)

2. How to get the most out of documentation

If you haven't had to read this kind of stuff before, please take a few minutes to get used to the conventions.

You can choose to read each document as a whole or section-by-section. Use the link immediately above the Table of Contents to switch between these two modes.
- In whole document mode, each section title has a pointer on the right which goes up one level (subsubsection ↗ subsection ↗ section ↗ contents).
- In section-by-section mode, each section title has arrows left and right above it which link to the previous and next sections.
A list of recently-updated sections is shown at the bottom of the page when you click on the ‘section-by-section’ link.