ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS STANDARD
ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS STANDARD
ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS STANDARD
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GAMA <strong>ELECTRONIC</strong> <strong>PUBLICATIONS</strong> <strong>STANDARD</strong><br />
However, upon direct entry at the beginning of a publication or chapter, the user will be brought to the<br />
logical beginning of the information, not to the front matter.<br />
Refer to the glossary of terms appended to this specification for more information on front matter.<br />
B. TOC<br />
The retrieval software will provide a table of contents of text and graphic minimum revisable units for<br />
each publication that supports such structuring. The retrieval software must permit access into the<br />
publication via this table of contents.<br />
C. Illustrations and Tables<br />
The retrieval software will support the display of any illustration or table included, or referred to, in<br />
the text.<br />
Illustrations and tables (according to the rules defined in Section 5.2.5) will be available as scanned<br />
from the original paper source document. It is recommended that all illustrations and tables that are<br />
uniquely identified with a caption be accessible from a selection list.<br />
The following text and graphic screen display options are allowed:<br />
• Simultaneous text and graphic display in a single window (inline graphics)<br />
• Simultaneous text and graphic display in separate windows (overlapping or side-by-side)<br />
• Display of text or graphic in a single window (with a method for switching between text and<br />
graphics without an intermediate step)<br />
D. Backtracking<br />
The retrieval software will maintain a record of the user's navigation within and across publications<br />
during the current session. Departure points (the text being displayed at the time of leaving a MRU)<br />
will be tracked, and a mechanism will be provided to directly select and return to any of these<br />
departure points.<br />
The retrieval software should keep track of a minimum of the last 24 departure points during the<br />
current session.<br />
E. Bookmarks<br />
The retrieval software will provide support for user-definable bookmarks. The bookmark will record a<br />
specific position in the publication. The retrieval software will provide the user with a mechanism to<br />
access the list of previously defined bookmarks, and the ability to navigate to a bookmark's location.<br />
The retrieval software should permit the saving of user-defined bookmarks such that they can be<br />
recalled and re-used in future sessions.<br />
Upon revision of the publication by the author, the system relocated position of the bookmarks<br />
should conform to the following rules:<br />
• If a particular MRU contains a bookmark and that MRU has not been revised, the position of<br />
the bookmark is preserved within the MRU.<br />
• If an MRU containing a bookmark has been revised, but the text containing the bookmark has<br />
not changed, the bookmark is preserved within the MRU.<br />
• If an MRU containing a bookmark has been revised and the text containing the bookmark has<br />
changed, the bookmark repositions to the beginning of the MRU.<br />
• If an MRU containing a bookmark is eliminated, the bookmark is orphaned and repositions to<br />
the next higher level within the publication (i.e. section, chapter, title page).<br />
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