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28th EPS Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics,
18-22 June 2001, Funchal, Portugal 
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1. Introduction
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This CD-ROM contains the contributed papers to the 28th EPS Conference
on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics.

The collection of papers can be accessed in two independent ways;
either in HTML using a frames capable web browser (like Netscape or
Microsoft Internet Explorer) or in PDF using Adobe Acrobat Reader
(version 4 or greater). In the following, we refer to these two ways
as the "HTML version" and "PDF version", respectively.

The HTML version features multiple indices (sessions, topics and
authors) with HTML links to each paper in PDF format. This version
contains a full cross-reference table of authors/papers. Navigation in
this view is very similar to browsing a website.

In the PDF version, in addition to the usual navigation across papers
and indices, papers are also searchable by means of a search engine
included in the CD-ROM. To make navigation easier, buttons were added
to the top of each page. These buttons link to the main navigation
window (main), to the indices (sessions, topics and authors) and to
the following and previous paper (session and topic order). To avoid
overloading the papers with buttons, we chose to provide an
additional, static, main navigation window, containing links to the
table of contents, indices, search engine and to the help pages.

The format of the PDF version is similar to that of the booklet, and
therefore we suggest using this version for printing.


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2. Requirements
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1) A computer with CD-ROM
2) Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or higher (available from http://www.adobe.com)
3) Optionally a frames capable web browser (like Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer)


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3. Configuration
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The CD-ROM is best used if the integration between the Acrobat Reader
and the web browser is configured in such a way that the following
holds:

1) When a pdf page has a link to an html document, clicking the link
   opens a web browser window, which displays the corresponding html
   document (This is the only sensible behaviour).

2) When an html document has a link to a pdf page, clicking the link
   does the following:

   a) In the HTML version, the pdf document is openend within the web
      browser window, via the acrobat plugin

   b) In the PDF version, an independent Acrobat Reader window opens and
      displays the corresponding pdf page

3) When a pdf document has a link to another pdf document, and that
   link is activated, the Acrobat Reader may display the linked
   document on a new (sub-) window, or instead, replace the referring
   document by the linked one. The user may specify what behaviour is
   preferred: the user's choice will generally be honoured, except if
   the (referring) document itself requests the opposite


Please refer to the file pdfs/help.pdf for instructions on how to
configure the Acrobat Reader to achieve this behaviour


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4. Getting Started
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Open the file readme.pdf using the Acrobat Reader and follow the
directions to select the version (HTML/PDF) you prefer to access the
papers.

After that, follow the links to the table of contents or to the index
if you wish to find a contribution by paper or by author. For browsing
papers, we suggest using the sessions index. If necessary, the papers
can also be accessed directly in the directory pdfs of the CD-ROM; the
file names correspond to the session numbers.



C. Silva, J. Pires and R. Nóbrega                          December 2001