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 come in two sizes: the usual A4 size, or in A5 size and positioned so that they come out well with the A5 size media setting in the Ghostview viewer. (In this case, 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, the A5 page texts 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.
In case of postscript format, there may also be a light-yellow icon with the heads of three persons in it. Clicking this icon obtains a "reference page" containing references for the postscript text. It is intended that the reader shall maintain the postscript window and the reference page side by side on the screen, and use the reference page for looking up references that are made in the postscript text. Such references are denoted <A>, <B>, etc in the postscript text, and the corresponding code is found on the reference page. This device is used as an intermediate solution, awaiting the arrival of a format that combines the graphic expressiveness of postscript with the electronic links of HTML.
Below the menu pages, one gets down to the factual contents, which are written either in HTML or in postscript. We believe that readers will sometimes prefer to print out such pages and read them in paper form, and therefore we establish a few conventions so that links between HTML pages can be read and understood even in the paper-printed form. In particular, when footnotes occur, they are collected at the end of the HTML text, and references to the footnote are written like <1>, <2>, etc within the text. These references are clickable, and brings one to the respective footnote when the text is read on the screen. In the paper printout, one has to refer to the end of the printout in order to look up such a footnote.
References to other parts of the colloquium structure (outside the document at hand) are denoted with a mnemonic within brackets, for example [topic]. These references are clickable, and refer 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 heading 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).