NAVIGATIONAL RULES
TECHNICAL:
The dRHA site is set up using HTML 4.0 protocol and is intended to be accessed primarily by Internet Explorer 4 & 5. Users of Netscape Navigator 4 & 5 may find slight difficulties in some of the link routines when the ID element is not supported and will have to use a default routine involving direct access to the appropriate url address and subsequent sequential reading. Also the MARQUEE element carrying messages will not function properly.
NAVIGATION:
Home Page:
This is the page that appears when you open ‘www.reshistoriaeantiqua.co.uk’. This page then directs the user to proceed to a brief description and the title page of individual books. Use the mouse on one left click on the appropriate Book Title to jump to the book required. However, it is advisable to explore the remainder of this page to learn the navigational rules of this site. To return to the Home Page one left mouse click on the ‘BACK’ icon will be sufficient
Book Title Page:
Contains copyright information which should be read! All text is made available from a table of contents. Each item indicates a chapter or a relevant discrete section of the book that is directly accessible by one left mouse click on the chapter required. Please note that the book is structured so that while individual chapters can be instantly accessed, it is always necessary to return to the Title Page to select another chapter when the current one is finished with. As before, a single left mouse click on the ‘BACK’ icon will accomplish this return and allow re-selection. However, if direct selection is not supported on your computer, a default option will intervene and by starting at chapter one the book can be read as a single, sequential whole.
Text Page:
The pages are not individually numbered and the text itself flows continuously with no page breaks. A ‘page length’ portion of text can be manipulated from the keyboard, rather than the mouse, using the ‘PAGE UP’ or ‘PAGE DOWN’ keys as required. In this context, one press of these keys will advance or retard the page by about eleven lines, or roughly the length of a paragraph. Single line advance or retardation is by mouse, by left clicking the t or the s icons on the right-hand side of monitor screen. (Please note that the navigational aids available on Word 97 are not available on Web sites!) Within individual pages, any Notes or Graphics can be accessed by one left mouse click on the appropriate spot and the text page retrieved by one left click on the ‘BACK’ icon.
Translation Page
Where translation from original texts, in Latin or Classical Greek, are involved there is some difficulty in continuity. In the original book form, the original text and relevant translation were on facing pages to enable the reader to move readily from one to the other. Unfortunately, HTML does not provide a similar facility at present. This will be remedied as soon as the technology permits. Meanwhile the reader's indulgence is craved as it it is necessary to 'page up' to retrieve the original text (in coloured font face!) for the current translated page. Thank you. (NB. UPDATE! In the prose translation from VERBA AMBIGUA HORATI, the Latin text has been withdrawn completely to avoid confusion and allow the prose translation (vital to the understanding of the whole book!) to be read unimpeded. A complete Latin text is available at the end of the book accompanying the verse translation. Thank you once again.
Other Pages
Maps, Figures and Diagrams will appear at the appropiate place in the text as small internal diagrams but may not be detailed enough for proper examination However, a highlighted 'click' button is made available to obtain greater detail and are accessed by internal links. The diagrams etc. will then be shown at full size(100%), then, by the using horizontal and vertical cursors, the picture can be fully scanned.. NB. Vertical cursors.are located on right hand margin, horizontal cursors are located on bottom margin and both are operated by mouse click!