[edit] 1 Accessing the Manual
This help page discusses physical accessibility of the manual.
[edit] 1.1 Reading the manual online
For reading, the materials are presented in a number of different ways.
For reading online, you have these options:
- For full interactivity, you can of course also read the text on the present wiki.
- Internet connectivity and low bandwidth are serious issues at many less resourced institutions, and if you find that that the html version is too slow to use, you can use this version instead. It has very small pages (conforming to low bandwidth accessibility guidelines), and you can turn images off. You can also access this version through the switch to plain text link, which will switch the whatever page you are reading to plain text.
[edit] 1.2 Downloading the manual
You can also download the manual, in a number of ways:
- While browsing the wiki, you can download individual pages as PDF, using the in-built 'Download as PDF' facility. Simply click the 'Download as PDF' link, that can be found in the 'toolbox' left-hand menu, to download the present page as PDF.
- Likewise, you can download any individual page as Open Document Text (ODT), by using the 'Download as ODT' link also located in the 'toolbox'. To edit the ODT document, see Help:OpenOffice.
- When browsing the wiki, you can of course also download the wiki text, using the edit (or view source) links for the manual pages or various sections.
However, you can also download the manual as a single pdf file from our downloads page, and you can order printed copies from a print-on-demand service. See downloads for further information.
[edit] 1.3 Using a local mirror
Keeping local copies. If you wish to make the manual available to your students locally, for instance while running a course using these materials at your institution, but you are suffering from poor internet connectivity and low bandwidth, we can offer you an easy-to-install mirroring solution, that provides mirroring for your local area network. Please see Help:Access for further information.
The mirror will download manual pages on demand, and will keep pages locally available even if your internet connection is slow or fails. If you have a lot of people on your local area network wishing to access the manual, but you have poor internet connectivity, you should consider this. Please contact Bjoern for further information.