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Regarding this Page's ChangesBrowser Specifics: DuckDuckGo accepts requests made with all mainstream browsers, while the Google field will also work with older browsers and with text browsers that are http-capable only. Differing Results: Understand that Google will present fewer AIEL links, or sometimes none at all even though the pages exist. You can test this by placing search terms into each field in turn to see that the results will usually not be the same. Hence the necessity of two search fields. (To save time, once typed, copy & paste your search terms into the other search field.) Peruse the URLs: Whichever search box is used, please look at the path of each result to see that it's actually an AIEL link before choosing it. Caveats: Realise that you may still have to scroll past sponsored links, and/or that some AIEL links may not contain the desired term(s) which you had entered. To clean out many of the undesired results, you could place each term within double quotes and then repeat your search, but still, not all search engines will find these terms all of the time -- and it means extra time for you.
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Search fields exclusive to the AIEL website will be given
after the examples. Enter search terms of one or more words,
or of phrases.
Searches are not case sensitive, so capital letters will be
treated as if in lower case. Boolean search operators and
wildcard characters may also be employed, but some may
need to be capitalised, and not all are supported
by every search engine.
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Note that complete words should be entered. Incomplete
words such as `ellip' instead of `ellipsoidal' will usually
return no results.
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Successful searches should result in the presentation of links
for only the AIEL webpages containing the term(s) you entered.
Sponsored (advertisement) links may precede AIEL links.
Once you go to any AIEL page, use your browser's intra-page
function, to further narrow the field so as to locate what you desire.
Intra-Page Search is explained in detail after the
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then followed by examples.
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Upon arriving on a given link's page, use your browser's built-
in "Search" function to quickly jump to where you want within that
page. This is a recommended method because it eliminates the
always dreaded `scroll & scan' procedure needed to locate
the text you desire that is somewhere in the current document.
Depending on the browser, its own Search function is
typically invoked by pressing one of the following.
- Control+F (Find)
- Control+Q (Query)
- Control+W (Where?)
- F7 (Alternate Key with Some Browsers)
- `/' (Used by Some Text Browsers)
A box or field appears and you may enter the word or
terms for which you wish to search. If none of these key
commands work, consult your browser's "Help" guide.
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Our in-depth website now extends to 130 html documents
and another 39 .txt versions of instructional or similar pages.
Each of the large number of subjects is catergorised into its
own section or subsection. To gain a perspective of this,
overviews are given in a variety of forms to assist you:
- A Site-Wide Links Index lists all the first and second
level pages. It is alphabetised and clickable.
- Graphic maps are available for persons wishing to
visualise the website's structure. The 1012-pixel
Large Graphic Map is for bigger monitors, while
the Small Graphic Map at 640 pixels is suitable
for those using smaller screens.
- We provide a Text Map for persons employing
handicap-translation software or for those
employing a text browser.
Realise that for each of the preceding, only primary and
secondary levels are shown. This is done to ease overcrowding
of the Links List and Site Maps. Levels not shown but encountered
later, will always correspond by subject to the one directly above.
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