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These tutorials were developed in the year 2000 when the nature of typesetting mathematics in HTML was far from ideal. We have updated many of the tutorials to be universally viewable (notably, the 12 tutorials related to Math 11), but readers still may have trouble viewing certain tutorial elements. We have tried to make the mathematics as clear as possible. However, there may still be places where browser/HTML limitations have forced imprecise notation. In order to convey the notation as effectively as possible, we require that you set up your browser with the proper font. This will insure that you are viewing the pages as we have intended. Please consult the section of this page that deals with your operating system and browser. If despite following the guidelines on this page you are still unable to view the pages correctly, please contact us.

PC

  • Internet Explorer 4 supports symbol fonts by default. However, this browser is limited to one level of super/subscripting. This may cause some confusion with certain expressions.

  • Netscape 4 supports the symbol fonts by default. There are no known issues relating to this browser.

Macintosh

  • Netscape 3 requires you to change the font encodings option to "MacRoman". This is accomplished by going to the "Options" menu, selecting "Encoding", and then selecting "MacRoman".

  • Netscape 4 requires you to change the font encodings option to "MacRoman". This is accomplished by going to the "View" menu, selecting "Encoding", and then selecting "MacRoman".

UNIX

  • Netscape 3 and 4 both require you to edit one or more files because Netscape does not normally support symbol fonts under X. For more details, read this.

General Comments about Browsers

  • We realize that there are many browsers and platforms that are not listed above. Here are some specifics on what you will need. In order to view the HTML tutorials, you must have a browser that supports symbol fonts. We also recommend that your browser implement both JavaÔ and javascript. While these two features are not essential to viewing the HTML tutorials, they allow you access to more interesting and helpful tools.

  • Note: if you see a superscripted "TM" after the word Java in the preceding paragraph, then your browser does support symbol fonts.